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“Operating a gasoline-powered leaf blower for one hour produces as much volatile organic compounds and NOx as driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from New York City to
by newbamboo 5y ago
“Operating a gasoline-powered leaf blower for one hour produces as much volatile organic compounds and NOx as driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from New York City to Orlando, Florida,”
Wow. I think of all the leaf blower persons working full time throughout the state and it must be in the hundreds of thousands. I think unless they try and regulate that, there will be an enormous black market in gas powered leaf blowers that’s going to make some criminal enterprise very wealthy. Would be much better to ban the blowers themselves than the sale of the blowers.
- Arrath 5y ago> I think unless they try and regulate that, there will be an enormous black market in gas powered leaf blowers that’s going to make some criminal enterprise very wealthy. Would be much better to ban the blowers themselves than the sale of the blowers. Banning the use of existing tools must surely be untenable due to the sheer quantity of them in use throughout the state, often by independent landscaping service companies that probably don't have the capital to refit their workforce at once.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThey can phase them out e.g. ban them in the morning and evening, ban them in built up areas, ban them in contracts given by the city government. Once you get some momentum behind it, it'll be like someone smoking in a restaurant, just an obviously unpleasant thing to be doing that was totally normal fot a while.
- newbamboo 5y agoMany areas have the bans you allude to. The state could easily do the same.