Each weekend, about 54 million Americans mow their lawns, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants. In a single day, Southern California’s lawn tools spew out more pollution than all the aircraft in the Los Angeles area. (Source: CNN Online)

One gas mower puts out more pollution than 73 new cars.

The EPA claims that 17 million gallons of fuel, mostly gasoline, are spilled each year while refueling lawn equipment. That’s more than all the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, in the Gulf of Alaska. (Source: CNN Online)

Want to calculate your chosen gas lawnmower’s pollution?

There are numerous actions you can take to reduce your energy consumption and fight global warming. For those with lawn, this is an easy step. Switch mowers!

By using a push mower instead of a power mower you are helping to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere by 80lbs a year. You are helping to clean up our atmosphere. BUT a bigger bonus (like so many carbon neutral things… ) they are cheap to buy and run (as they don’t use gas) and they are extremely light weight. When we got ours it made us wonder why we didn’t get one before! They are so beneficial, you’ll be pondering why everyone else doesn’t own one too!

Here is a site I found for environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies that sell a wide variety of push mowers!

And yes, as I said, we have one too. They totally rock!
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