Gas Powered Lawn Mowers Produce TONS of Air Pollution
Visit Home PageNoted on PeoplePoweredMachines.com, about 54 million Americans mow their lawns each weekend, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants. Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions until very recently, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5% of the nation’s air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas. 
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a traditional gas powered lawn mower produces as much air pollution as 43 new cars each being driven 12,000 miles.
It’s time to make a change.
This knowledge may just inspire us to not only make a change in our own backyard, but perhaps you can gift a loved one an ecological lawn-related product this holiday season. Depending on your budget, there you can find organic fertilizers to electric lawnmowers.
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- Learn more about lawn care at the EPA website
- Calculate your lawnmower’s pollution
- Learn more about the sourced data found in this article
