Leaf Blower Pollution

A four minute video showing fugitive dust created by blower use. Voiceover by Peter Graves recites facts cited by Orange County Grand Jury Report, as well as the findings of studies conducted as of 2001. Please share or download, and visit http://zapla.org for more information.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• health
• pollution
• los angeles
• leaf blower
• noise
• particulate
• peter
• graves
• zero
• air
• activism
• community
• gardening
• education

[ulfara]

Leaf blowers are cool!

[littlehux27]

GOOD i hope all of you die from my cloud of dust cause without a backpack blower a good job that YOU pay for....AND that you wanting your yard looking nice cannot be done.. its fast and efficient i would love to see you lazy complaining asses get up and sweep/ or rake a yard and then tell me you would not use a back pack blower....

[CarlyWaarly]

The noise is tiresome and just adds to the misery and burden to the quality of life!

[stevenreichert2]

Leafblowers are not just noise pollution--they blow up dust, mold, dirt, pollen, animal feces, etc. Do you really want to breathe all of that?

[rjjcms1]

Leaf blowers. Stupid pointless invention aimed at silly people with more money than sense.

Why are people so afraid of leaves on the ground? It's called autumn (fall to you lot across the pond).

Give me leaves on the ground any day instead of any horrible litter.

[farmboy26ful]

He was running that blower realy rich, thats why it smoked so much, and dust settles eventualy and why would I want to keep the leaves on the ground? Thats why I got a blower right?

[workensmart]

@ChadZ1 Your not very smart are you? When I said zero smoke I ment "smoke" not exhaust emissions. older 2 cycles used to smoke allot more than newer 2 cycles. If you knew anything about small engines than you would have known what I ment. The only idiot here is you. If you think a leaf blower is annoying than go live in the middle of nowhere. People use then to make cleaning up easier. I use mine all the time and so do my neighbors. You must be that douche on the block that no one likes.

[ChadZ1]

My response to ms290guy1999 above also applies to you. In fact, if leaf blowers were so much quieter, I wouldn't be here now because my neighbor's new leaf blower wouldn't be annoying me. Also, genius, you don't have to see smoke for an engine to be putting out exhaust. Or perhaps you're actually trying to say there is zero exhaust in which case you're an idiot bc everyone knows combustion of gasoline creates carbon dioxide. Don't believe me? Run your car in closed garage and die.

[ChadZ1]

@ms290guy1999 Yeah, you're totally right, facts are well known to have a liberal bias! Don't be a stereotypical republican and say something is not true just because you don't like the truth. Now, whether it's bad enough that you care and want to do something about it, that's an entirely different matter.

[ms290guy1999]

bunch of bs. this is coming from all the golbal warming librals

[SuperBigEv]

are you kidding its 2-stroke exhaust the only danger is getting addicted to the great smell (: its these kind of people that are ruining good lawn equipment with this hybrid 4 garbage technology

[SuperBigEv]

ugly and low property value vs clean air. also non of this shit gets blown into the air only grass and leaves. DONT LISTEN TO THIS ITS BS!!