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+1 to the battle of wills. There's tons of the stuff round here. The bits in my garden, I pull as much as I can when I see it. Been doing this for the last few years and actually not seen any this year when it's clearly still affecting all the neighbours.
I also noticed in hindsight, after getting the knotweed treated, that it too can be weakened over time. There was a small clump that I did not know was JKW at the time so was just pulling it. That came back smaller and smaller over the next couple of years and when I did get the proper people in to treat it, that clump died and disappeared nearly overnight. Now going on two years with no re-growth anywhere. The treatment did kill everything within about a foot radius, but that other stuff has grown back. So you could use chemicals to knock out the bind weed too if you didn't mind a dead patch for a while.