Pesticides and fertilizers may make your lawn look pretty, but they're not pretty for the environment. Pesticides are harmful to creatures in any kind of body of water. How do pesticides get all the way to a pond, stream, or lake you ask? The answer is that, when it rains, some of the pesticides are swept off of the lawn, going into the sewage drain, and eventually ending up in a lake, river, pond or some any other kind of body of water. As for fertilizers, same situation, they too are swept off into sewage drains, and then end-up in lets say a pond. Soon, the fertilizer begins to have an effect on the vegetation in the pond. Lots of plants grow.(Plants that are eligible to grow in water). You may think this could be a good thing, but really, it's not. Overtime, plants begin to clog-up the pond. And as we all know, plants take in oxygen so pretty soon,sense there are so many plants, all of those plants can take a lot of oxygen from the water. One problem, there are fish and other creatures in the water that need oxygen. See what the problem is? So... don't use pesticides or fertilizers!!!!!
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You can live “green” and still have a lush green lawn, advocates say. With lawn-care season on it's way, a number of eco-conscious organizations are trying to educate people who own homes about ways to battle weeds and nourish grass without polluting the environment with pesticides, fertilizers and gas fumes from the lawn mower.
They say a lawn can be just as green with corn gluten and organic fertilizers and they’re asking residents to stop using so many pesticides and to stop over watering because using too much water is bad also.
They’re urging people who own homes to switch to push electric mowers. A typical gas-powered mower lets out as much pollution as 11 cars, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency!
