Lawns & Gardens Under Our Care
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Toronto’s annual celebration of all things green turns Yonge Street into ‘green street’ with more than 100 exhibitors of green products and services, local food, live music, and more. Please join us on July 16, 2011 at Yonge-Dundas Square. -
October 4, 2010 - Using The GrassCutters saves the environment…
Throw away your stinky, noisy, fuel sucking lawn mowers.
The GrassCutters zero emissions lawn care service are proud to announce that we saved 4500lbs of greenhouse gases (CO2) from entering the atmosphere this summer. Using the energy produced by our portable solar generator, we were able to charge all of our electric equipment without the need for a single ounce of fossil fuel. Pretty impressive!
Using the Environmental Protection Agency’s Non-Road Emissions Model, a gas mower used for 25 hours will emit the following each year:
- 87 pounds of CO 2 — the greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide
- 48 pounds of CO — the poison Carbon Monoxide
- 5.6 pounds of VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds
- 0.25 pounds of NO x — Nitrogen Oxides
- 0.02 pounds of SO 2 — Sulfur Dioxide
- 0.02 pounds of PM — particulate matter linked to heart disease and lung cancer
Something to think about the next time you start the mower and cut your lawn.
wow… there are sure a lot of lawn mowers on that photo… haven’t seen any electric motor yet in our place. looking forward though for a greener planet with less carbon footprint.