Push mowers are back
02 Apr '07 from the editors
Thanks to the Green Options blog for pointing out this disturbing statistic:
... a 2001 Swedish study showed that “Air pollution from cutting grass for an hour with a gasoline powered lawn mower is about the same as that from a 100-mile automobile ride.” Homeowners cranking up those gas powered machines on the weekends may create as much as 5% of the nation's air pollution.
Not to mention the attendant noise pollution. It is always annoying to have one's suburban Sunday idyll interrupted by power mower after power leaf blower.
Image Michael Krzymin, www.sxc.hu
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5%!
Five percent of the nation's air pollution! That's disturbing. Think of all the pollution generated by all the golf courses in the U.S. and their requisite maintenance. I guess push mowers are one solution (at least in our own backyards). There are also electric mowers. Does anyone know how well these work compared to gas-powered mowers?