Stop! Don’t Burn Fallen Leaves

Stop! Don’t Burn fallen Leaves

Burn fallen leaves

Reason:

    Gardeners, sweepers and residents are openly seen burning dry and fallen leaves and adding to the air pollution in the already polluted city. It is a practice that is going unnoticed posing serious environmental hazards.

    Burning of leaves leads to air pollution, health problems and fire hazards. Leaf smoke may also contain hazardous chemicals such as carbon monoxide, which can mix with haemoglobin in the bloodstream and reduce the amount of oxygen in the blood and lungs. Another noxious chemical commonly present in leaf smoke is benzo (a) pyrene, which has been shown to cause cancer in animals and is believed to be a major factor in lung cancer caused by cigarette smoke. Breathing leaf smoke can irritate eyes, nose and throat of healthy adults and can wreak havoc on small children and aggravate things for the elderly and people with asthma or other lung or heart diseases.

    “When burned, leaves emit a huge amount of suspended particles and soot which settles in the lungs, worsening pulmonary diseases. Burning of leaves also releases cancer-causing organic compound called benzene and toxic gas carbon monoxide in large amounts. Small children are at a graver risk. Joggers and all who inhale more air in the morning are also greatly exposed to it.

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Solved:

    The dazzling display of crimson and orange as autumn summons the changes in the colors of leaves will soon fade within a matter of weeks as tree leaves settle to the ground at our feet. To the untrained eye, their purpose seems to have ended only to be tossed to-and-fro by the wind across our yard. But did you know that these fallen leaves from trees can improve your soil? How? Through Leaf Mold.

What is Leaf Mold?

    Leaf Mold is essentially partially decomposed hardwood tree leaves. If you were to go out into the woods and lift up the layer of leaves to reveal the top soil surface, you’d find Leaf Mold. Instead of leaves breaking down with bacteria, like traditional hot composting pile methods, leaf mold uses a slower, but important, fungi-driven process. The result is Leaf Mold—an excellent carbon-rich natural soil amendment that doesn’t cost you a dime. It can be turned and mixed into your soil or simply added to the top of your soil as a surface mulch.

    For example, in one particular three-year study, scientists grew onions and amended one plot of sandy soil with Leaf Mold compost and in another identical plot added no Leaf Mold to the soil. The Leaf Mold compost-amended plot had significantly greater yields than the cultivars grown in those not amended. Not only did the onion bulb weight increase, but those same compost-amended plots produced a great number of onions than the non-amended plot. Interestingly, in addition, the compost-amended plot of onions did not exhibit soft rot disease despite receiving higher than average precipitation.