The global warming impact of leaf blowing and other gas powered yard care is actually staggering. Those 2 stroke engines are awful in terms of efficiency and the partial combustion releases gases hundreds of times more potent than CO2.

Blowing your yard can be a bigger CO2 impact than commuting 2 hours a day. The article states 1100 miles worth of driving. I’ve seen estimates saying 30 minutes of blowing your yard is the equivalent of driving a f150 from Alaska to Texas.

Electric leaf blowers are the only real solution and it needs to be federal legislation.

What about just using electricity? No need to rake.

These small devices also leak formaldehyde

Anytime I see this cited, I summarily dismiss the entirety of the article in question.

Why? Because you know what produces formaldehyde? Humans do.

So does a leaf blower produce less formaldehyde than the mouth breather in the break room at work? More than a Taylor Swift concert? Can’t tell without numbers… If you’re just gonna say that leaf blowers should be banned because formaldehyde, are you also suggesting genocide?

What a bunch of whiney nosey bastards. 1984 shit.