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Scram! Keeping apartment homes pest-free, without toxic pesticides: no residents likes insects and rodents living inside their apartment. Common sense measures and regular, routine maintenance can keep pests away, reducing the need to spray.
Units, June, 2004 by Seikel, Kathy
One of the trickiest environmental challenges for apartment dwellers and apartment managers alike is pest management--finding the best way to control unwanted invaders while minimizing the use of potentially toxic pesticides.
Pests, such as cockroaches, mice and rats, can be particularly troublesome in multifamily housing or other densely populated buildings where they are hard to control. Pest problems in one apartment, left unchecked, can spread to neighboring apartments.
However, as vexing as most people find the pests in apartment buildings, many are unaware of the environmental and health risks that can be associated with pesticides--the chemicals used to keep pest populations in check.
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