Avoid using leaf blowers and other dust-producing products.
“Approximately 65,000 premature deaths from cardiopulmonary causes may be attributable to particulate air pollution each year,” according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. It not only kills people, but leaf bowers also kill wildlife such as bees, butterfles, insects and plants. With the high power blowers, they spread disease, and possible toxic fungi that the leaves cover up. It even has been documented that leaf blowers have caused the following ailments: but is not limited to, the following: hearing loss, greater risk of heart attacks, depressed immunity, increased adrenaline, change of heart beat, elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels, social discord, impaired communication, heightened social conflicts and increased psychological, social and emotional problems.
I had no clue leaf blowers did this, but then again I have never used one because as child I was always put to working raking up leaves. Then of course to jump in them and spread them all over again, that is half the fun.
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