But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.
I’ve been prepping my driveway for the last week to seal coat it, and I feel bad when I need to run the electric blower for like ten minutes max.
I keep the garage door shut when I run the air compressor and run the hose out under it, which works very well to suppress the noise.
I also share the opinion that regular leaf cleanup is stupid. like just leave 'em be, the bugs will use them and they’ll feed the lawn. raking is usually easier than blowing anyways, in my experience. maybe that’s just because I’ve never cut my grass weekly and don’t have a golf course for a yard
I hate grass and I hate all the stupid shit it takes to maintain it. Mowers, blowers, weed whackers. All that fucking stupid waste to cut grass and put it in a landfill.
Grass consumes so many resources only to end up in the dump. Most of my neighbors bag it up and put it in the trash. Water, useless fertilizer, pesticides, weed killer and other stuff, it is nontrivial.
Omfg, at least compost it! Fucking morons and their grass. I cut mine like every three weeks and clean up none of it. It can just lay there. If I didn’t live in a bullshit hoa neighborhood, I would just let it turn into a meadow. Ive seeded microclover, but it’s slow to take over. Working on it a little more each year.
We throw ours in a ditch which I think is technically illegal for some stupid reason but I’ll be damned if I’m using a plastic bag for organic waste that I could just kinda… leave there.