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October 8, 2018
The momentum is undeniable now. People are clearly tired of the noise and the fumes.
Reached 100 supporters
October 8, 2018
77 Comments
I can no longer hear birds singing in my neighborhood, because all I hear is the 2 stroke whine of the evil leaf blower. I support any city or town trying to ban this scourge.
I can no longer hear birds singing in my neighborhood, because all I hear is the 2 stroke whine of the evil leaf blower. I support any city or town trying to ban this scourge.
Please visit: NationwideLeafblowerBan.org LeafblowersHurtKids.info
As a dog walker both my canine clients and I are exposed to the noise and air pollution generated by noxious machines 10 months a year. In addition to causing respiratory problems we find it extremely stressful and unpleasant.
I am signing this because I know that leaf blowers are bad for the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants. I am attempting to get a ban on these blowers in my neighborhood.
Please ban these horrible machines. They are a menace to society, our planet and wildlife.
MV needs to be next. It's out of control here
The Insanity Of These Destructive Devices Day In And Day Out Year Around In My Subdivision and Beyond Can Drive The angry Beyond The Breaking Point!!! These Are Murderers Just Out For Money and Greed With No cooperative respect For The neighborhood The Kingdom Of God or America Itself. Just Greed Greed Greed. Intrusion Intrusion Intrusion At the oddest Hours Of The Day Rain Or Shine Stupid as They Are, Stone Deaf They Literally Have Become To Their Own Device!! I WILL NOT Back Down From Seeing a Law Placed Intoeffect To Ban This Device From Killing The elderly Young Men who need to work and Play guitar and dogs and cats and Pet rats and hamsters who silently suffer as well!!! NO MORE RAGE!!! GOD WILL PREVAIL!!!
There must be a way to return to sanity I.e. stop trying to sanitize the earth
Please put an end to these loud, smelly , unnecessary machines
My neighbor blows the leaves 3 times a day. 9am, 3pm and then 5pm.
Please do not send email or share my email address. I am certain you would acquire many more signatures if providing an email address were not required. However banning leafblower use is important and long overdue.
I resent municipalities that choose these smelly and loud machines over really good quality manual tools (A fraction of the price, a pleasure and eassier to use). the alternative is possibly not as thorough, but since when is leaving the odd scrap of organic material behind an issue.
BAN LEAFBLOWERS. My retired neighbour uses the loudest and most polluting leafblower ever made CONSTANTLY and needlessly. I have NO enjoyment of my house or yard. The intolerable noise gives me headaches and hypertension.
large contribution to global warming by irresponsible,ignorant people! a Shame.....in 2016.
agree!!!!
They are noisy and a nuisance, and they just blow the leaves elsewhere. Hasn't anyone heard of a broom?
I can't stand them! Our city has noise laws, but these people will use them at 3 in the morning!!
I live in a gated community where everyone has manicured yards. Most residents still allow there yard workers to use the blower. I don't allow it on my property. What bothers me More than the noise is the debris that comes into my yard and driveway when the neighbors do there yard---I hate it
I was recently assualted by a property manager and a gardner using leaf blowers for hour in front of my bedroom window. These harmful machines need to be banned for the sake of humanity!
god yes great idea. a survey of 366 residents in a municipality showed 2/3 wanted them more regulated or banned. at least have limited hours.
These things are a waster of time, money, oil, ears, and lungs. They don't save time. They blow leaves onto others' property making it their responsibility. They are made of plastic and burn fossil fuels inefficiently. Yeah, we need to invade the Mid-East for this!
Sick of the dust, never mind the noise. Kids sick, wife's sick, I'm sick because our house is covered inside and out by dust. Where are they blowing this stuff to ? Other peoples property.
BAN LEAFBLOWERS EVERYWHERE. My neighbour is obsessed with small engines, making my chronic pain much worse and my blood pressure skyrocket.
Noisy polluting unnecessary & make gardeners lazy. 10 minutes after use the leaves usually blow back anyway. What is wrong with a rake.
Even if you're stalled fighting it locally on the issues of noise and the dust plume, make videos with your phone and convey this documentation of WASTE DUMPING to your local water authority. The blower users don't bag and remove leaves. They use the streets to dump their refuse, bill for the time, hop in their trucks, move on, and write off the cost of algae blooms, water pollution and clogged storm drains to the public.
Leaf blowers are satanic and those who support their use are devil worshipers.
THEY SHOULD BE BANNED. EVEN THE OPERATORS OF THESE WEAR PROTECTION OVER THEIR EARS TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE NOISE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?
These machines are just noise polluters; also most people from what I have seen use them just to blow leaves into a corner of their yard. Also rakes are better for the environment and the person using a rake is getting exercise. Also I have asthma. Not good for people with breathing problems. PLEASE OUTLAW THESE NOISY USELESS MACHINES NOW. Everyone will be a lot happier and so will the wildlife. Also have high blood pressure. Elevates when these useless machines are used.
nobody cares here!!!
If I could go back in time I would not kill Hitler's mother, I'd kill the mother of the person who invented the leaf blower.
CAN'T STAND THE NOISE!!! BAN THESE INFERNAL MACHINES
Leaf blowers destroy quality of life. The manufacturers should be sited. They should at least be producing quite alternatives, or modifications to silence existing blowers.
smelly, noisy and can use a rake instead
In the past week I've had two events where I was sitting outside enjoying a $12 drink and along came some gas-fired monster to shamelessly ruin the day with smoke, dust, noise and fumes, all to save some person $20.
Leaf blowers are a hindrance to quality of life, especially quality sleep in the morning. Absolutely useless garbage that only moves leaves from one place to a difference place. These workers should and can find other jobs.
They are constantly used in Surbiton and are a nuisance. I also live next door to a private school which instead of clearing the leaves after school, prefer to do it late on a Saturday afternoon thus disturbing all those in the surrounding area. Please ban these asap.
Blowers remove peace from my neighborhood. They make me sneeze. They make me feel anxious. They are not good for humans and should be banned. Please help me to get them banned in Calabasas. My neighbors yard is so large that every Friday for 3 hours I hear the blower on my one day off and I want it to stop!
Difficult to hear constant leaf blowing and regular mowing for greater than 3 hours daily. These are otherwise nice people.
Beside the noise, I can't keep my windows opened or cleaned or my car. Plus what they blow in the air include excrements from all kinds of animals. They are a health hazard and should be banned.
They should be banned.
If the noise hurts me, I can't imagine how much i hurts our local fauna and pets. And the pollution is unacceptable. Plus it'd be a great source of employment: silent-old-fashioned cleaning.
Please ban these...
NDG
Leaf blowers have been banned in many cities in New York as well as Many parts of California including Beverley Hills for years... I thought we are supposed to be reducing our emissions in London UK ? ? what are we waiting for ?
These machines are dangerous to human life. As a former landscaper at New York's Central park, they were not allowed!
Useless, noise polluting, air polluting machines.
There is no upside to leaf blowers. They are inefficient at gathering leaves, they cause noise pollution, they emit greenhouse gases, and they deprive those who use them of healthful exercise.
Inefficient, extremely noisy and not remotely eco-friendly.
We've tried for years to get our small village of Nyack, NY to consider regulating these dangerously, disturbing machines; but the local government has consistently refused; stating that it would hurt the businesses of landscapers.
Please make it stop, 5 hrs straight!!!
Noisy, annoying, useless pollutants! Sitting here listening to one across the canyon now and just had to close the damn window to drown out the annoying sound!
these monstrosities are an environmental hazard and pollutant. ban them.
Leaf blower usage is out of control. The gas powered ones are an affront to humanity in the noise the produce and the environmental harm is a disaster. Ban gas powered leaf blowers!
None
Leaf blowers are completely unnecessary, bad for the environment, bad for human health, bad for economic productivity for those of us who work at home. Please pick up a rake instead. There's nothing wrong with the old-fashioned method of leaf control.
This is one of the worst inventions mankind has ever done. And yet, we see those despicable blasting noise and gas polluting machines everywhere here in the United States. I can’t believe that the suburban residents of New Jersey prefer their spick and span leafless lawns over their health and their peace. But it is so. I had never seen and heard so many leaf blowers until I moved from the heart of New York City to suburban New Jersey. And they piss me off. Tremendously. They destroy every peaceful quiet afternoon in the neighborhood when you’re sitting in the backyard. They smell bad and are immensely polluting. And the worst part is that most of the people using these things are the landscaping workers blowing only a few leaves away into the gutter, because it’s their job to show up every week working for a landscaping company that has a weekly contract. They have to make their hours, even if there are only 10 leaves to blow away. It’s ridiculous. What a waist of money, time and gas, and on top of that destructive for the environment both in terms of noise and chemical pollution. Thank you for creating this petition! I'm with you 100%!
Tremendous degradation on quality of life, everywhere you go, all hours of the day
Life has become almost unbearable due to the noise of these leaf blowers when attacking the neighbourhood from morning to evening, especially now that everyone is trying to work from home due to the pandemics but also in general. Not only polluting the air quality and environment because of the gas and fuel they are using but also because of the deafening noise they are causing. Ban these gas-powered devices immediately.
I have chronic migraines that are exacerbated by the sound of these obnoxious, polluting machines that can easily be replaced with a rake. They should be banned.
Noise Pollution Ban the machines Give jobs to humans w silent tools
Make covid much worse for home bound. They use go all day here!!!!
Lets bring back the rake and get green. Ban Leaf blowers everywhere!
I hate these noisy, nasty machines.
Leaf blowers are a blight to our communities. Noise, air pollution is the cause of much illness. How 'bout we mask the leaf blowers?
The noise is health-destroying and so are the leading carcinogens emitted by the two-stroke engines, which spray 30% of their fuel-oil mixture into the air unburned.
Leaf blowers kick up particulate matter so small (PM 2.5) that once inhaled it never leaves the body. Leaf blower dust is comprised of animal feces, mold, and lawn chemicals that exacerbate existing lung condition and have long-term effects such as cancer and erectile dysfunction. Insect and bird life cannot exist under the scorched earth conditions from leaf blowers. And when the insects go, we all go. Good neighbors do not use leaf blowers or employ those who do use them.
Noise, air pollution not to mention further irritation to individuals with lung conditions, and Allergies.
Totally useless machines that create noise and air pollution, needlessly use energy and damage plants and wildlife. Less effective than previous methods used. Sometimes it is good to leave the leaves where they are.
More damage to the environment than good
Use a rake!
Damaging insect life and inefficient engines. Unnecessary co2 production
noisy, annoying and it just blows dirt from one place to anther and into air that we breathe
The noise and fumes are damaging to the health of my family and the environment
Hoping for a nation-wide ban on these stupid things. Not only is the noise horrible, so is the disrespect it shows for everyone. For the average city and suburban lawn, they aren't more efficient than raking, and leafblowers are used for a lot of things that are totally unnecessary.
Hoping for a nation-wide ban on these stupid things. Not only is the noise horrible, so is the disrespect it shows for everyone. For the average city and suburban lawn, they aren't more efficient than raking, and leafblowers are used for a lot of things that are totally unnecessary.
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Updates
October 8, 2018
The momentum is undeniable now. People are clearly tired of the noise and the fumes.
Reached 100 supporters
October 8, 2018
77 Comments
The noise is annoying but more importantly it gives me asthma attacks from all the dust and mold it blows up into the air. Not to mention the exhaust and gas fumes. We put a limit on idling cars for that reason but these things are running non stop every day.
I can no longer hear birds singing in my neighborhood, because all I hear is the 2 stroke whine of the evil leaf blower. I support any city or town trying to ban this scourge.
I can no longer hear birds singing in my neighborhood, because all I hear is the 2 stroke whine of the evil leaf blower. I support any city or town trying to ban this scourge.
Please visit: NationwideLeafblowerBan.org LeafblowersHurtKids.info
As a dog walker both my canine clients and I are exposed to the noise and air pollution generated by noxious machines 10 months a year. In addition to causing respiratory problems we find it extremely stressful and unpleasant.
I am signing this because I know that leaf blowers are bad for the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants. I am attempting to get a ban on these blowers in my neighborhood.
Please ban these horrible machines. They are a menace to society, our planet and wildlife.
MV needs to be next. It's out of control here
The Insanity Of These Destructive Devices Day In And Day Out Year Around In My Subdivision and Beyond Can Drive The angry Beyond The Breaking Point!!! These Are Murderers Just Out For Money and Greed With No cooperative respect For The neighborhood The Kingdom Of God or America Itself. Just Greed Greed Greed. Intrusion Intrusion Intrusion At the oddest Hours Of The Day Rain Or Shine Stupid as They Are, Stone Deaf They Literally Have Become To Their Own Device!! I WILL NOT Back Down From Seeing a Law Placed Intoeffect To Ban This Device From Killing The elderly Young Men who need to work and Play guitar and dogs and cats and Pet rats and hamsters who silently suffer as well!!! NO MORE RAGE!!! GOD WILL PREVAIL!!!
There must be a way to return to sanity I.e. stop trying to sanitize the earth
Please put an end to these loud, smelly , unnecessary machines
My neighbor blows the leaves 3 times a day. 9am, 3pm and then 5pm.
Please do not send email or share my email address. I am certain you would acquire many more signatures if providing an email address were not required. However banning leafblower use is important and long overdue.
I resent municipalities that choose these smelly and loud machines over really good quality manual tools (A fraction of the price, a pleasure and eassier to use). the alternative is possibly not as thorough, but since when is leaving the odd scrap of organic material behind an issue.
BAN LEAFBLOWERS. My retired neighbour uses the loudest and most polluting leafblower ever made CONSTANTLY and needlessly. I have NO enjoyment of my house or yard. The intolerable noise gives me headaches and hypertension.
large contribution to global warming by irresponsible,ignorant people! a Shame.....in 2016.
agree!!!!
They are noisy and a nuisance, and they just blow the leaves elsewhere. Hasn't anyone heard of a broom?
I can't stand them! Our city has noise laws, but these people will use them at 3 in the morning!!
I live in a gated community where everyone has manicured yards. Most residents still allow there yard workers to use the blower. I don't allow it on my property. What bothers me More than the noise is the debris that comes into my yard and driveway when the neighbors do there yard---I hate it
I was recently assualted by a property manager and a gardner using leaf blowers for hour in front of my bedroom window. These harmful machines need to be banned for the sake of humanity!
god yes great idea. a survey of 366 residents in a municipality showed 2/3 wanted them more regulated or banned. at least have limited hours.
These things are a waster of time, money, oil, ears, and lungs. They don't save time. They blow leaves onto others' property making it their responsibility. They are made of plastic and burn fossil fuels inefficiently. Yeah, we need to invade the Mid-East for this!
Sick of the dust, never mind the noise. Kids sick, wife's sick, I'm sick because our house is covered inside and out by dust. Where are they blowing this stuff to ? Other peoples property.
BAN LEAFBLOWERS EVERYWHERE. My neighbour is obsessed with small engines, making my chronic pain much worse and my blood pressure skyrocket.
Noisy polluting unnecessary & make gardeners lazy. 10 minutes after use the leaves usually blow back anyway. What is wrong with a rake.
Even if you're stalled fighting it locally on the issues of noise and the dust plume, make videos with your phone and convey this documentation of WASTE DUMPING to your local water authority. The blower users don't bag and remove leaves. They use the streets to dump their refuse, bill for the time, hop in their trucks, move on, and write off the cost of algae blooms, water pollution and clogged storm drains to the public.
Leaf blowers are satanic and those who support their use are devil worshipers.
THEY SHOULD BE BANNED. EVEN THE OPERATORS OF THESE WEAR PROTECTION OVER THEIR EARS TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE NOISE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?
These machines are just noise polluters; also most people from what I have seen use them just to blow leaves into a corner of their yard. Also rakes are better for the environment and the person using a rake is getting exercise. Also I have asthma. Not good for people with breathing problems. PLEASE OUTLAW THESE NOISY USELESS MACHINES NOW. Everyone will be a lot happier and so will the wildlife. Also have high blood pressure. Elevates when these useless machines are used.
nobody cares here!!!
If I could go back in time I would not kill Hitler's mother, I'd kill the mother of the person who invented the leaf blower.
CAN'T STAND THE NOISE!!! BAN THESE INFERNAL MACHINES
Leaf blowers destroy quality of life. The manufacturers should be sited. They should at least be producing quite alternatives, or modifications to silence existing blowers.
smelly, noisy and can use a rake instead
In the past week I've had two events where I was sitting outside enjoying a $12 drink and along came some gas-fired monster to shamelessly ruin the day with smoke, dust, noise and fumes, all to save some person $20.
Leaf blowers are a hindrance to quality of life, especially quality sleep in the morning. Absolutely useless garbage that only moves leaves from one place to a difference place. These workers should and can find other jobs.
They are constantly used in Surbiton and are a nuisance. I also live next door to a private school which instead of clearing the leaves after school, prefer to do it late on a Saturday afternoon thus disturbing all those in the surrounding area. Please ban these asap.
Blowers remove peace from my neighborhood. They make me sneeze. They make me feel anxious. They are not good for humans and should be banned. Please help me to get them banned in Calabasas. My neighbors yard is so large that every Friday for 3 hours I hear the blower on my one day off and I want it to stop!
Difficult to hear constant leaf blowing and regular mowing for greater than 3 hours daily. These are otherwise nice people.
Beside the noise, I can't keep my windows opened or cleaned or my car. Plus what they blow in the air include excrements from all kinds of animals. They are a health hazard and should be banned.
They should be banned.
If the noise hurts me, I can't imagine how much i hurts our local fauna and pets. And the pollution is unacceptable. Plus it'd be a great source of employment: silent-old-fashioned cleaning.
Please ban these...
NDG
Leaf blowers have been banned in many cities in New York as well as Many parts of California including Beverley Hills for years... I thought we are supposed to be reducing our emissions in London UK ? ? what are we waiting for ?
These machines are dangerous to human life. As a former landscaper at New York's Central park, they were not allowed!
Useless, noise polluting, air polluting machines.
There is no upside to leaf blowers. They are inefficient at gathering leaves, they cause noise pollution, they emit greenhouse gases, and they deprive those who use them of healthful exercise.
Inefficient, extremely noisy and not remotely eco-friendly.
We've tried for years to get our small village of Nyack, NY to consider regulating these dangerously, disturbing machines; but the local government has consistently refused; stating that it would hurt the businesses of landscapers.
Please make it stop, 5 hrs straight!!!
Noisy, annoying, useless pollutants! Sitting here listening to one across the canyon now and just had to close the damn window to drown out the annoying sound!
these monstrosities are an environmental hazard and pollutant. ban them.
Leaf blower usage is out of control. The gas powered ones are an affront to humanity in the noise the produce and the environmental harm is a disaster. Ban gas powered leaf blowers!
None
Leaf blowers are completely unnecessary, bad for the environment, bad for human health, bad for economic productivity for those of us who work at home. Please pick up a rake instead. There's nothing wrong with the old-fashioned method of leaf control.
This is one of the worst inventions mankind has ever done. And yet, we see those despicable blasting noise and gas polluting machines everywhere here in the United States. I can’t believe that the suburban residents of New Jersey prefer their spick and span leafless lawns over their health and their peace. But it is so. I had never seen and heard so many leaf blowers until I moved from the heart of New York City to suburban New Jersey. And they piss me off. Tremendously. They destroy every peaceful quiet afternoon in the neighborhood when you’re sitting in the backyard. They smell bad and are immensely polluting. And the worst part is that most of the people using these things are the landscaping workers blowing only a few leaves away into the gutter, because it’s their job to show up every week working for a landscaping company that has a weekly contract. They have to make their hours, even if there are only 10 leaves to blow away. It’s ridiculous. What a waist of money, time and gas, and on top of that destructive for the environment both in terms of noise and chemical pollution. Thank you for creating this petition! I'm with you 100%!
Tremendous degradation on quality of life, everywhere you go, all hours of the day
Life has become almost unbearable due to the noise of these leaf blowers when attacking the neighbourhood from morning to evening, especially now that everyone is trying to work from home due to the pandemics but also in general. Not only polluting the air quality and environment because of the gas and fuel they are using but also because of the deafening noise they are causing. Ban these gas-powered devices immediately.
I have chronic migraines that are exacerbated by the sound of these obnoxious, polluting machines that can easily be replaced with a rake. They should be banned.
Noise Pollution Ban the machines Give jobs to humans w silent tools
Make covid much worse for home bound. They use go all day here!!!!
Lets bring back the rake and get green. Ban Leaf blowers everywhere!
I hate these noisy, nasty machines.
Leaf blowers are a blight to our communities. Noise, air pollution is the cause of much illness. How 'bout we mask the leaf blowers?
The noise is health-destroying and so are the leading carcinogens emitted by the two-stroke engines, which spray 30% of their fuel-oil mixture into the air unburned.
Leaf blowers kick up particulate matter so small (PM 2.5) that once inhaled it never leaves the body. Leaf blower dust is comprised of animal feces, mold, and lawn chemicals that exacerbate existing lung condition and have long-term effects such as cancer and erectile dysfunction. Insect and bird life cannot exist under the scorched earth conditions from leaf blowers. And when the insects go, we all go. Good neighbors do not use leaf blowers or employ those who do use them.
Noise, air pollution not to mention further irritation to individuals with lung conditions, and Allergies.
Totally useless machines that create noise and air pollution, needlessly use energy and damage plants and wildlife. Less effective than previous methods used. Sometimes it is good to leave the leaves where they are.
More damage to the environment than good
Use a rake!
Damaging insect life and inefficient engines. Unnecessary co2 production
noisy, annoying and it just blows dirt from one place to anther and into air that we breathe
The noise and fumes are damaging to the health of my family and the environment
Hoping for a nation-wide ban on these stupid things. Not only is the noise horrible, so is the disrespect it shows for everyone. For the average city and suburban lawn, they aren't more efficient than raking, and leafblowers are used for a lot of things that are totally unnecessary.
Hoping for a nation-wide ban on these stupid things. Not only is the noise horrible, so is the disrespect it shows for everyone. For the average city and suburban lawn, they aren't more efficient than raking, and leafblowers are used for a lot of things that are totally unnecessary.
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The noise is annoying but more importantly it gives me asthma attacks from all the dust and mold it blows up into the air. Not to mention the exhaust and gas fumes. We put a limit on idling cars for that reason but these things are running non stop every day.