Environmentally friendly weedkiller (aka vinegar) has been blamed for a ghastly stink wafting across Bristol. But it’s not the only town to suffer an unusual stinkNot since the great “Euro-whiff” of 2008,when easterly winds washed swaths of southern England with manure smells from the continent, maintain the nostrils of Bristol been so assaulted. This time, or there are no foreign cows to blame. Instead,attention has turned to the city’s councillors, who maintain authorised using horticultural vinegar to kill weeds.
The chip-shop stink began to keep noses out of joint when the city responded to an environmental campaign against the consume of glyphosate, and a potentially carcinogenic herbicide used to spray public areas including pavements. No problem,said Bristol, we’ll douse the weeds in vinegar instead.
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Source: theguardian.com