We all know that large power plants and cars and factories are major contributors of the global warming, but what are the things that we didn't notice but are ruining the atmosphere as well?
1. Gas- powered lawn mowersAccording to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Gas- powered lawn mowers contribute to 5% of the air pollution, Each weekend, about 54 million Americans mow their lawns, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants. That is due to the deregulation of emissions of garden equipment. According to the EPA, the amount of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides emissions air pollution that gas- powered lawn mowers are responsible are equivalent to 11 cars operating in the same time.
2. gas-powered leaf blowers
Similar to lawn mowers, many leaf blowers use the two-stroke engine, it is a lightweight, cheap, compact and simple engine, which makes it a handy motor often found in leaf blowers, chain saws, lawn mowers and jet skis. However the two-stroke engine is known as a environmental hazard, 30 percent of the fuel the engine uses fails to undergo complete combustion, as a result, it emits a large amount of pollutions.
Also, leaf blowers are known to be a major source of noise pollution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-bad-for-the-environment-are-gas-powered-leaf-blowers/2013/09/16/8eed7b9a-18bb-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html
http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm
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