The City of Wichita will pay you $50 to replace combustion lawn equipment with electric or battery-powered lawn equipment.
The pilot program aims to incentivize individuals and help the city control its ozone emissions.
Non-road mobile sources make up between 25% to 36% of local emissions. Lawnmowers and other lawn equipment are estimated to account for 50%-90% of those sources.
The lawn care equipment rebate pilot program is an effort to mitigate the ozone emissions within the city’s control. The funds are allocated through the KDHE’s air quality grant along with matching funds from the City of Wichita.
This after the city issued an ozone alert Friday evening.
