{"id":17985,"date":"2024-01-04T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?page_id=17985"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:29:32","slug":"landscaping-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/landscaping-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscaping Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our Goal &#8211; Ban Gas-powered Leaf Blowers!<\/h2>\n<p>The Green Needham Landscaping Team is seeking to ban gas-powered leaf blowers and to shift to safer, more environmentally responsible approaches and equipment for leaf handling and removal in Needham.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Why is eliminating gas-powered leaf blowers so important?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17995 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_1582.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gas-powered leaf blowers create <\/strong><strong>hazardous, disruptive noise<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>At levels up to 100 decibels, gas-powered leaf blowers create a documented nuisance, disrupting concentration and communication and increasing stress. The low frequency noise of gas-powered leaf blowers can penetrate walls and carry over long distances. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.cdc.gov\/#\/details?url=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vitalsigns\/hearingloss\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Disease Control<\/a> has warned that prolonged exposure to gas-powered leaf blowers can lead to permanent hearing loss. A host of other <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.hms.harvard.edu\/articles\/noise-and-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health problems<\/a>, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and attention deficits, have been found to be caused or exacerbated by prolonged noise pollution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gas-powered leaf blowers <\/strong><strong>negatively affect climate change<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>The carbon emissions of gas-powered leaf blowers are significant, cumulative, and will last far into the future. The\u00a0 EPA estimates that, in 2020, lawn and garden equipment such as lawn mowers, leaf blowers, snow blowers and chain saws emitted more than <strong>30 million tons<\/strong> of carbon dioxide \u2013 greater than the total greenhouse gas emissions from the city of Los Angeles in 2021.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lawn_Care_Goes_Electric_Oct23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawn Care Goes Electric<\/a>, released by MASSPIRG.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gas-powered leaf blowers have harmful air-quality and health effects<\/strong>: Gas-powered leaf blowers spew a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2015-09\/documents\/banks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toxic plume of chemicals<\/a> into the air, including volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxides. Nitrous oxides and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are chemical precursors to ozone, which is linked to respiratory illnesses, including asthma. These emissions have a particularly deleterious effect on children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Cancer-causing chemicals are also emitted, including benzene, 1,3-butadiene, and \u00a0formaldehyde.\u00a0 See<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lawn_Care_Goes_Electric_Oct23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lawn Care Goes Electric<\/a>, released by MASSPIRG, and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/chasesantacruz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CARB-Health-and-Environmental-Impacts-of-Leaf-Blowers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Report to the California Legislature on the Potential Health and Environmental Impacts of Leaf Blowers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gas-powered leaf blowers can have especially <\/strong><strong>harmful health effects for lawn-care workers, an <\/strong><strong>environmental injustice: <\/strong>Lawn-care workers using gas-powered leaf blowers for prolonged periods of time, and often without protective gear, are placed at an especially high risk of respiratory illnesses and hearing loss, as the noise level at the operator&#8217;s ear exposes some workers to exposure that <a href=\"https:\/\/chasesantacruz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CARB-Health-and-Environmental-Impacts-of-Leaf-Blowers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0exceeds<\/a> OSHA permissible limits. As lower-wage workers, the employees of lawn-care companies may not enjoy either the professional flexibility or the access to high-quality health care that their clients do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Healthier, safer <\/strong><strong>alternatives are readily available: <\/strong>In many instances, leaves are nature\u2019s perfect winter <strong>ground cover<\/strong> and can be moved to landscape beds to provide a natural composting mulch. For those who maintain their own yards, <strong>rakes<\/strong> provide excellent exercise and do much of the job well, without producing clouds of dust that contain dangerous particulate matter such as fecal material, pesticides, fertilizers, and allergens. Although the raking method may be more time-consuming, the health benefits override the shortfalls. And for individual residents and professional<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Battery-Leaf-Blower-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18010 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Battery-Leaf-Blower-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Battery-Leaf-Blower-pic.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Battery-Leaf-Blower-pic-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong> lawn-care services, <strong>electric leaf<\/strong> <strong>blowers<\/strong> are quieter, effective, and produce no emissions from combustion &#8212; although they still aerosolize harmful particulates from yards and streets. This equipment is readily available to private and professional consumers. Green Needham provides a list of organic landscapers that use electric leaf blowers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/zero-waste-main-page-2\/local-sustainable-landscapers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Current Initiatives<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/man-using-Electric-Leaf-Blower-pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17996 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/man-using-Electric-Leaf-Blower-pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>Green Needham is preparing a Citizens&#8217; Petition that would stop the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in Needham over a phase-in period. The petition is planned for the May 2025 Town Meeting to be voted on by town meeting members.<\/li>\n<li>Green Needham is connecting with other towns in Massachusetts &#8211; including Belmont, Lexington, Newton and Arlington &#8211; to benefit from their experiences in banning gas-powered leaf blowers in their own communities.<\/li>\n<li>Green Needham is preparing the town for a possible ban by encouraging Needham residents who maintain their own yards to learn when and how to use leaves as a compost cover in their own landscape beds.<\/li>\n<li>Green Needham is encouraging Needham residents who maintain their own yards to switch to rakes and\/or electric leaf blowers in the near-term future.<\/li>\n<li>Green Needham is encouraging Needham residents who hire professional lawn maintenance services to insist that electric equipment be used on their properties.<\/li>\n<li>Green Needham is engaging with local professional lawn maintenance services to encourage and support them in making 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