“Why do we put up with these earsplitting, obnoxious gas-powered leaf blowers?” one resident asked. While a landscape business owner said it would cost thousands to upgrade equipment.
was on track to become the first Pennsylvania municipality to ban two-stroke, gas-powered lawn equipment such as leaf blowers and string trimmers as part of a fight against climate change.
The council said it would work with the borough Environmental Advisory Council to make the public aware of the law if it were adopted, with a focus “on the detriments of all leaf-blowing equipment,” the benefits of leaving leaves on lawns or mulching them, and encourage residents to switch to electric equipment, which would be allowed.
Sound from gas-powered leaf blowers can reach 90 decibels or more and have been shown to exceed the World Health Organization’s recommended daytime standards of 55 amplitude-weighted decibels. Their low-frequency noises can travel hundreds of yards and penetrate walls.
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