The South Coast Air Quality Management District - SCAQMD runs a Lawn Mower Exchange Program that I recently participated in and strongly recommend. Residents can turn in an old, operable gasoline-powered lawn mower and purchase a new cordless electric lawnmower that produces zero emissions at reduced cost. An older gas-powered lawn mower can spew more pollution into the air in a single year than a car driven more than 22,000 miles. All the gas mowers that are turned in for this program are scrapped and the metal recycled. To date, SCAQMD has scrapped more than 53,000 highly polluting gasoline mowers, removing more than 100 tons of smog-forming pollutants from the Southland’s air. Visit AQMD.gov to register for the next exchange.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:36:19 +0000