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Article Source: CBS Broadcasting IncNEWTON, Mass. (WBZ) ―
Newton is trying to weed out gas powered leaf blowers, citing noise and pollution concerns.
The city held a hearing Wednesday night on an ordinance that would ban the blowers. The ordinance is in favor of electric blowers considered to be less polluting.
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This from our local Air Pollution Control Board in Louisville, KY--
Operating a typical (4 HP) gasoline-powered lawnmower for one hour produces as much smog-forming hydrocarbons as driving an average car almost 200 miles under average conditions. Gasoline-powered string trimmers are actually more polluting than lawn mowers. These hydrocarbons contribute significantly to ground level air pollution and are especially harmful to sensitive groups such as children and the elderly. Switching from gasoline to electric or human powered lawn equipment will eliminate a major pollution source around your home and in your neighborhood. Likewise, chemicals that fertilize and kill weeds may impact air and water quality, increasing the health problems for any of us with breathing problems.
For more information about the Lawn Care for Cleaner Air program, click here.
I think it is a good idea, and I wish we could do it here in Louisville. :-)
#1 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:50 PM ESTI've thought that all along.. I mean really the medical people want people to exercise and so they go home and use a leaf blower...that's a duh! Raking the yard would be ever so much more exercise than the leaf blowing thingy. Good point with this article...need it all over, the ordinance of course.
#2 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:54 PM ESTNoise pollution is accumulative to the hearing, the more noise the better chance of losing some of your hearing... If you notice most of the people who operate them where ear plugs.. landscapers with the professional lawn mowers.. the big ones.. wear ear plugs.. but what about the people surrounding the area.
All around me there are these leaf blowers .. I am surrounded by them.. again it is an accumulative affect on the hearing.. the loud music, the loud motorcycles with after market parts, sirens, store music or intercom systems, music in a car/home.. all decreases a person's hearing over time.. There was a study done back in the 80's which I remember very well.. that showed that 75% of the kids that listen to really loud music all the time will lose a lot of their hearing by the time they are in the early 60's.
Eh?
I was on a drilling rig all those years, and no one wore earplugs... Wish I had!
Dowser, huh? Yes.. now your television is probably louder than it should be...your music louder than it should be, and it also has the person losing their hearing talking louder....
Absolutely! I can't hear what people are saying sometimes, and any background noise seems to scramble my brain... Maybe the scrambling, though, is another problem. ;-)
Take care!
I am 100% deaf in my left from an accident at 3yr old.,, I've been saying Huh?? or What? since kindergarten.. however, I have to hear everything out of my right.. and a lot of noise distorts and I cannot focus in on it.. if a person is talking.. I must be looking straight at them or they have to be on my right side... otherwise all the other noises going on, I cannot distinguish from what a person is saying and the other noises.. At times it is great.. not to hear...
Yes, sometimes it can be a real blessing to be able to 'tune' things out-- and I can only imagine how handy it would be to just turn one's head!
I think I'm just getting hard of hearing-- but I notice it more when my blood pressure is up, etc.
((((((((((Par 4)))))))))))) Take care of yourself out there!
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