Mow Greener

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

Hamilton County Environmental Services implemented Mow Greener in 2022. This program incentivizes local residents to replace their gas-powered lawn mowers with a battery-powered lawn mower by rewarding these purchases with a $100 VISA gift card. The purpose of Mow Greener is to remove gaspowered lawn mowers from the region as the air pollution caused by their small gas tanks and motors contributes to ozone, an air pollutant designated as harmful to public health by U.S. EPA in the early 1970s. Our goal was reward the purchase of 140 verified battery-powered lawn mowers within the five-county region we serve. Mow Greener sold out with such success that we have expanded it for 2023-24, with a more ambitious goal of 500 new battery-powered mowers.