Ever hear of a broom or a rake?You get a large plastic tarp and blow it onto it. It then can be easily bunched together for bagging by lifting the corners to get the leaves in the center
Or you could rake or sweep the leaves etc. directly into bags.
How stupid can you be to try and get the leaves from a "large plastic tarp" into garbage bags without a rake or a broom?
Ever hear of mind your own business?
Exactly - grab a damn rake. I work at home and hear these stupid blowers for 1/2 an hour on a 1/5 acre lawn, when these armies of landscape workers could rake and bag the same amount in 10-15 minutes. I’ve tried to blow leaves before, it’s very inefficient.
Or the lazy homeowners in my neighborhood could just do the work themselves on the weekend or after work.
But banning gas blowers, no.
In lots of municipalities the leaves are gathered into large piles on the sides of the streets and large municipal vehicles come along periodically and suck them up. That’s the way it works where I live. Leaf blowers make it much easier to gather up the leaves into those piles; it’s a lot quicker and less labor-intensive than raking. At least that’s what they say, because I don’t rake leaves. I let them sit on the lawn and decay over the winter, providing nutrients for the soil.
You use both. Concentrate it with a blower. Use a rake to finish up. Unless you are stupid?