DRÖÖÖHHHN. Deafening noise tore the neighborhood from their beds. It is seven clock in the morning, signals the start of LEAF BLOWERS. The Autumn Garden Rambo is driving out the door - armed with leaf blowers roaring and suckers.
The devices are booming: But not only urban street-use devices, but also more and more individuals in the front yard. Noise with announcement.
Five years ago, rang for the first time, leaf blowers and street cleaning through our cities. Since then, a controversy is raging: Helpful gardening or annoying noise-monsters? With 90 decibels leaves are blown through the area.
In 2002 were approximately 450,000 units in Germany in operation, there are now growing more than 1.3 million - and rising. Even discounters the wind for only 50 euro offer.
The private Laubbeseitigung should be cautious. According to the Noise Control Ordinance noisemakers may be used only on weekdays between 9-12 Clock Clock and 15-17.
The situation is different when authorized by the urban waste management companies: "We have a Ausnahmegenemigung countersigned by the President and may derogate from 6 until 22 clock around 50 devices with our work," said Ralf Bohme by AWISTA in Dusseldorf. In Cologne (AWB) and Bonn (waste) just suck the colleagues from 7 clock.
