Summer's Here - Cutting The Lawn

What is the carbon impact when you cut the lawn?

According to Which? magazine, cutting a lawn with a push mower allows a 60kg person to burn 360 calories an hour ... It costs an average of 20p every 100ml of fuel for a mower with a petrol tank and about 4p for every 20 minutes that you use a 1700W electric mower.

Of the seven hand mowers put to the test by Which?, the winning model was the Husqvarna Novocut 64 (http://www.husqvarna.co.uk/, £80), scoring highly on how the lawn looked and the speed with which ground was covered. The second best was the Brill Razorcut Premium 33 (http://www.manualmowers.co.uk/; £95).