Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy Efficiency

Posted by TreeHugger in Business & Politics, Insects, cities green, topnews, usa on 30-07-2010

nasty bedbug photo Bedbug. Image credit:wikipedia Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awful from an environmental standpoint: like cooking an entire apartment building to bake them out, repeatedly washing all cloths and linens in hot water, and paying for multiple (often ineffective) pesticide applications. It gets worse....Read the full story on TreeHugger