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by gniv 979 days ago
It's even worse than that. Those are the half-lives. From the paper: "These glyphosate-metal complexes increase the half-life of the herbicide dramatically, from 90 days to 7 years in water and 47 days to 22 years in soil."

On the plus side, things should get better soon: "In 2012, Sri Lanka imported >5 million kg of glyphosate until a ban was imposed since 2014."