Construction Site Cleanup - FAIL!

Why do leaf blowers even exist? Honestly. The only good use I've seen for them is using one as a bellows to stoke a bonfire. Other than this, I've seen some truly nonsensical uses - even for blowing leaves. In every single case I've seen them used for cleanup, they are far slower and less efficient than using a rake or broom. Really, they are just a sign of being lazy.

But this one really takes the cake. On the construction site across from me they are refurbishing the apartment buildings and insulating them on the outside - great news for saving energy! The owners should be applauded!

However, the guys doing the actual work need a few lessons here, and I hope to be the one to teach them one. I've contacted the City and demanded that my yard and all my neighbours yards be cleaned of this junk. In this video you can clearly see them kicking up huge clouds of styrofoam and just blowing it away into the wind - into MY yard! These guys need shop vacs, not leaf blowers. You can see them very clearly walking on the scaffolding, and hear the leaf blowers going. In some shots you can even see it all around me in the air as it blows into my yard.

When I first saw the stuff in my yard a few weeks ago I accepted it and just thought it was an inevitable consequence of the construction across the way. But now I finally see that it is not at all inevitable. If they were using shop vacs instead of leaf blowers as they should be, there would be only a tiny fraction of this stuff blowing around.