Cutting your lawn without gasoline in your mower

Mowing your lawn for one hour with a conventional gasoline-powered lawn mower can cause more air pollution than driving from Madison to Chicago in a new car.

Replace your old gasoline-powered mower with a new manual mower, an electric mower or a rechargeable cordless mower. You'll save time and money and help the environment.

• Manual mowers are excellent for small lawns. They are inexpensive, quiet, easy to maintain and healthy to use.

• Electric mowers work well for small to medium lawns. Modern pollution controls required for utility plants make this option much cleaner than gasoline mowers. They are:

  • Inexpensive to operate – about $5 per year for electricity.
  • Easy to maintain – no costly engine tune-ups or messy oil changes.
  • Clean – no spilled oil or gasoline, no exhaust fumes, significantly reduced air pollution.
  • Quiet – about half the noise of gasoline mowers.
  • Easy to start – push-button starting, no more yanking on a starter cord.