18 x 24" Poster Design for Ms. Kresl-Moffat. These will be put up around the school!
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Idling for more than 10 seconds burns more fuel than turning your engine off and restarting it again. Driving warms up your vehicle twice as quickly as idling, reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Every hour of idling wastes 0.6 liters of fuel which results in 1.4 kg of carbon dioxide entering the environment.
Idling is not an effective way to warm up your vehicle. Not only does your engine need to be warmed up but so do your tires, transmission, wheel bearings and other moving parts. The best way to warm up your vehicle is to drive it while avoiding high speeds and rapid acceleration for the first 5 km.
The catalytic converter in your vehicle, the device that cleans pollutants from your vehicle, does not function at its peak efficiency until it reaches a temperature between 400 and 800 degrees Celsius. The best way to warm up your catalytic converter is to drive your vehicle.
Idling can damage your engine because your vehicle is not at its peak operating temperature. As a result, fuel combustion is incomplete which leaves fuel residues that condense along the cylinder walls contaminating the oil and damaging the engine components.
Restarting your car numerous times has little impact on your vehicle and its engine components like the battery and starter motor. It is estimated that the component wear caused by restarting your engine is $10 per year. This amount will easily be recovered in fuel savings from reduced idling.
State law (Ch. 90, Sect. 16A) and DEP regulations (See 310 CMR 7.11(1)(b) in the complete Air Pollution Control Regulations) Local boards of health, local police, and state and federal officials are authorized to enforce the state anti-idling law, while the DEP enforces its own regulations. Law enforcement personnel may issue civil fines to violators. The law provides for fines of $100 for a first offense and $500 for second and subsequent offenses.
The anti-idling law, signed on Feb. 10, prohibits the “prolonged idling of a motor vehicle engine on school property.” Less idling will reduce pollutants that trigger asthma attacks and impair lung function growth in children.
In Massachusetts, more than 9,000 school buses and other vehicles transport nearly 750,000 children to school every day. Additionally, staff, faculty, students, visitors and delivery trucks add to the outdoor environmental pollutants emitted on school grounds.
The DEP reports that 10 percent of Massachusetts residents have asthma, 2 percentage points higher than the national average. Asthma management requires a large investment of time for many school nurses.
The source for this info is" http://www.mma.org/municipal-services/3766-dep-offers-help-with-anti-idling-law
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