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Yes, right. As usual an ill thought out decision by people who have little else to do than look out of the windows of their ivory towers. Have they recognition of the increase in man hours this decision is going to result in ? Suspect that it will result in previously cleared areas being left uncleared as cannot see them expanding the workforce to make up the loss in productivity under the present economic conditions, nor the claims for RSI from using rakes all day. What nonsense!
Have just emailed them to suggest that they sell all the mowers and go back to scythes.
Or even better just have wild roaming sheep. Typical decisions being made by people without a clue.
It's a bit of a double edged sword this .
Does it mean that Edinburgh council will automatically pay out millions of pounds in compensation to any employee past or present who is diagnosed with a lung condition or cancer and freely admit fumes from leaf blowers were the likely cause ,providing evidence to back up their statement they wil be shooting themselves in the foot .
Is it a case of virtue signalling or is it based on sound medical research collected before the date of the announcement , devil is always in the detail ?
I can remember watching the old park keepers raking up leaves in the park and feeding their winter bonfires which smouldered giving off a lovely aroma of woodsmoke .
I can also remember noticing many of those old park keepers ended up with round shoulders and poor posture some nearly bent double .
To add some balance I feel electric blowers would be a massive benefit for all but it may involve a compromise meaning leaves usually removed for aesthetic reasons are left in situ to rot down naturally to conserve battery power .
Looks like they're going to investigate the banning rather than actually doing it. I remember raking leaves up on the council some 40 years ago.............. an hours work with the blower could take days with a rake. Find it hard to believe the polution they're suggesting............... they're very small engines emiting no visible smoke. They've probably got their "facts" from some crank in the USA.......... if you search hard enough, you'll always find some nutter to back up some daft theory you might have!! If they ban these, they'll need to do all the other hand-held petrol tools as well I guess. Then there's the mowers of course...... It just isn't going to happen.
One solution would be to gradually replace all deciduous trees in Edinburgh, with conifers and evergreens. Yes still some leaves shed gradually and pine needles etc. But not producing the catastrophic autumnal mess where every single leaf falls within a few weeks. Would be a lot less work. Blowing leaves around is a wasteful use of time and resources really. I have been to scottish islands where no trees grow at all, too windy
I support the green party, but I'm afraid this comes into the category of 'well meaning do-goodery'. I say leave the false facts and uninformed statements to the fossil fuel lobby!
They are investigating this, and I suspect it won't survive the application of a little reality.
I'm afraid your bias led you to a highly misleading summary: battery leaf blowers were given just as much prominence in the article you linked to as rakes. In other words, an actually eminently sensible idea to shift from petrol to battery, which most of us already do.
Yes lets just move the pollution to the power station where out of sight is out of mind.
Less pollution overall from battery than combustion engine. And no fumes and less noise so safer for user and those nearby.
Not too safe for the slave child labour in the Congo, working at gunpoint to mine the battery raw materials without even the most basic of PPE.
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