Unit 5: Negative Environmental Impacts of Lawn Mowers
Blog Post #5: Gas-Powered Lawn Mowers
Gas-powered lawn mowers are machines that use revolving blades to cut a grass to a desired height. The most common lawn mower you will find would be a gas-powered lawn mower. They are the most efficient at cutting grass quickly but they have a negative aspect, their emittance of greenhouse gases.
In this article, it is said that each weekend, approximately 54 million Americans mow their lawns, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants. Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions until the late 1990's, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5% of USA’s air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.
Some interesting facts about gas-powered lawn mowers include that one hour of mowing is equivalent to driving 350 miles, one gas mower spews 87 lbs. of the greenhouse gas CO2, and 54 lbs. of other pollutants into the air every year, and that over 17 million gallons of gas are spilled each year refuelling lawn and garden equipment.
Some alternatives to reduce our impact on the environment include getting fake grass, electric mowers, and push powers. Of course these alternatives won’t give you the same efficiency or feeling as the real deal but this way, you can reduce your carbon footprint and help save the environment
I personally never knew this about gas powered lawn mowers. It never clicked in my head that they play such a huge negative environmental impact and nothing is really being done about it. I believe that if the government made a push to replace these gas-spewing machines with other alternatives then it could make a very large national and international impact on the environment.
Do you own a gas powered lawn mower? If you do, would you ever try and make a push towards a more efficient and clean electrical mower?
https://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm
Gas-powered lawn mowers are machines that use revolving blades to cut a grass to a desired height. The most common lawn mower you will find would be a gas-powered lawn mower. They are the most efficient at cutting grass quickly but they have a negative aspect, their emittance of greenhouse gases.
In this article, it is said that each weekend, approximately 54 million Americans mow their lawns, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants. Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions until the late 1990's, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5% of USA’s air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.
Some interesting facts about gas-powered lawn mowers include that one hour of mowing is equivalent to driving 350 miles, one gas mower spews 87 lbs. of the greenhouse gas CO2, and 54 lbs. of other pollutants into the air every year, and that over 17 million gallons of gas are spilled each year refuelling lawn and garden equipment.
Some alternatives to reduce our impact on the environment include getting fake grass, electric mowers, and push powers. Of course these alternatives won’t give you the same efficiency or feeling as the real deal but this way, you can reduce your carbon footprint and help save the environment
I personally never knew this about gas powered lawn mowers. It never clicked in my head that they play such a huge negative environmental impact and nothing is really being done about it. I believe that if the government made a push to replace these gas-spewing machines with other alternatives then it could make a very large national and international impact on the environment.
Do you own a gas powered lawn mower? If you do, would you ever try and make a push towards a more efficient and clean electrical mower?
https://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm
ReplyDeleteI personally agree with you and how if the government made a push to replace these gas-spewing machines with other alternatives then it could make a very large national and international impact on the environment. I found your chemo quite interesting and a great topic to talk about. I do own a gas powered lawn mover, but I would like to try and make a push towards a more efficient and clean electrical mower to help ensure a cleaner and healthier country.