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We'll assume you've had other priorities. It's time you get hip and refresh your lawn waste practices. Scores under 46 reflect out-of-date practices like cutting down perennial stalks in fall and mulching-mowing leaves, putting them in trash, or using a gas-powered leaf blower. Using leaves in your yard instead of trashing or chopping them improves soil quality, nurtures beneficial insects, avoids polluting, and saves money. Did you know the inefficient motors of gas-powered lawn equipment accounts for 5 percent of all air pollution, according to the EPA? And lawn waste in landfill generates methane, roughly 30x more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere compared to the carbon dioxide produced when those leaves decompose in your yard. Moreover, many butterfly larvae overwinter in fallen leaves. And native bees overwinter in perennial stalks. So by changing your lawn waste practices, you can protect these beneficial insects and help reverse their alarming population decline.Do you really want to be THAT person anymore?