lawn care products pollution
In case you were wondering why all the latest focus on organic, let’s talk some about lawn care products and the pollution they cause.
Lawn care products pollution includes an unfortunately vast number of things. I often hesitate to list them owing to the numbers, but what I can do is provide some cautionary tales about being better with what we do use. In many ways, it also depends on where we live as to the effects we have on our fellow man. Noise pollution, for example, is not an issue out on the farm or in remoter suburban areas. Since we have now identified just about everything in the world we can think of as to how we contaminate our friends and enemies alike, sigh, I guess it is only fair to list 2 of them, to be fair and to give us things to consider.
The aforementioned “noise pollution” is a prime example. It occurs in reality when we live packed together as we now do in so many cities and towns. There a few options at the moment that are currently popular for alternatives to lawns in the landscape and, in truth, I would hope that stays the case. We can, however, mitigate it by choosing the correct times and days for the chore. Weekends, with the kids out playing a human noise fairly rampant, is a great time. Mornings, after allowing a civil wakeup time is good as well. In the end, we want most to not offend. This rule as a social construct is a civilized way to approach it all.
Another overlooked method of polluting is with our forced air blowers. These handy items allow us to clean up rapidly and throughly without the hand work of using brooms. But we overuse them. Also, there are electric alternatives which mitigate the use of gas powered ones, as well. These run quieter and sometimes without the unnecessary force of many of the gas powered varieties. One of the most unfortunate byproducts of using blowers, and especially the powerful ones, is in the spread and pulverization of dust. We blow micro organisms all over the place with these monster power blowers, including allergenic bacteria and unwanted seeds. A good rule of thumb in using blowers is to use the minimal amount of power as is necessary.
