Pure
Air Lawn Service
Environmentally Friendly Lawn Care ∙ Biodiesel
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Environmentally Friendly Lawn Care ∙ Biodiesel
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Fact ∙ One year of mowing your lawn (once a week for 7 months), with a gas combustion engine lawn mower, may produce the same amount of greenhouse gasses as driving a car 108,000 miles. Fact ∙ Nearly 50,000 square miles of The United States is covered in lawn. Fact ∙ Lawnmowers have developed in much the same way as cars: both have automatic transmissions, drink holders, and lots and lots of emissions. Fact ∙ The Times recently ran an article on the dirty politics of the lawnmower industry, which has fought tooth-and-nail against the proposed requirement of a catalytic converter to reduce smog-forming pollutants. It might take a few years, but the EPA will eventually prevail. In the meantime, we’ve got a much simpler and cheaper solution that you can enact today: get a push mower or hire Pure Air Lawn Service! Fact ∙ The push mower was invented in 1830 by Englishman Edwin Budding, and it’s been despised ever since. But the scorn is no longer deserved. Modern push mowers are so easy to and provide great results. Fact ∙ Among their virtues: push mowers are quiet, require minimal maintenance, are better for your grass, emit no foul fumes, are cheaper, take up less space in the garage, and provide a pleasant form of mild exercise. Fact ∙ Gallon for gallon — or, given the size of lawnmower tanks, quart for quart — the 2006 gas lawn mower engines contribute 93 times more smog-forming emissions than 2006 cars, according to the California Air Resources Board. Fact ∙ In California, gas powered lawn mowers provided more than 2% of the smog-forming pollution from all engines. Fact ∙ Mowing your lawn for one year, with a gas combustion engine lawn mower, may produce the same amount of pollution as driving a car 108,000 miles Fact ∙ One hour of lawn mowing, with a gas combustion engine lawn mower, produces the same amount of emissions as driving a car 1100 miles.
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