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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on April 17, 2023, 11:21:33 PM
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...as I've already converted years ago O0:
States and towns consider banning gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers
In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of residents in the affluent New York City suburb of Westfield, N.J., discovered that being home all day had an unexpected drawback: the constant roar of leaf blowers.
It became much more apparent to people who were attempting to work from home, or attend school from home, that there was this irritation in the environment constantly, Westfield resident Lois Kraus told Yahoo News.
By November 2020, when fall leaf season had peaked, some of them had had enough. Kraus joined forces with a resident of Montclair, another leafy New Jersey town, to co-found Advocates for Transforming Landscaping in New Jersey, with the mission of getting state residents to adopt more sustainable landscaping practices.
Here are my helpers:
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Gas leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread.
Advocates say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.
DENVER Your lawn may be the next climate change battleground. And parks. And playgrounds.
Regulators and clean-air advocates are increasingly eyeing the pollution emitted by small gasoline engines used to power lawn mowers and leaf blowers as they seek to blunt climate change. Environmentali sts say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.
Among cities and states with bans or limits: California; Burlington, Vermont; and Washington, D.C. Vancouver, British Columbia, also has restrictions in place.
While many critics first attacked the small engines for the noise they make, experts say these small, two-stroke engines release shockingly large amounts of pollution two problems that modern and increasingly affordable electric-powered equipment solves.