Replace small internal combustion engine lawn and garden equipment (e.g. lawnmowers, weed whips, etc.) with lower polluting equipment.
Best Practice of this action
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Conduct an educational campaign to inform residents and businesses to switch out gas-powered lawn equipment for battery-powered electric equipment. |
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Document that at least 50% of city-owned lawn equipment (i.e. mowers, weed whips, chainsaws, etc.) used on city land is battery-powered electric equipment (based on hours used); write into a city landscaping contract that only battery-powered equipment be used. |
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Provide financial incentive for residents and/or businesses to swap gas-powered equipment for battery-powered electric equipment; adopt an ordinance that limits the use of small internal combustion engine lawn and garden equipment. |
Resources
- Read more about the benefits of alternative landscaping equipment.
- A wide variety of electric lawnmowers, snow blowers, and other lawn equipment is available in the US. See manufacture agnostic resources (Shift2Electric) to help you choose the new, cleaner lawn equipment that works best for your needs.
- **Stay tuned for more information about a state master contract around alternative landscaping equipment coming soon!**
- See benefits of four-stroke boat engines and resources from the American Green Zone Alliance, which promotes zero-emission landscape maintenance strategies.
- Use the MPCA Air Pollution Score on the Environmental Justice Areas of Concern Map (MPCA) to locate areas for targeted assistance and incentives.
- See the Ann Arbor, MI ordinance that prohibits the use of lawn equipment with two-cycle combustion engines in the Downtown Development Authority district to reduce noise and air pollution.
- At least 25 California cities have banned or severely limited gas-powered leaf blowers.
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Action Type
Finite