50,000: Estimated cost, in $US, for a Washington, D.C., landscaping company to replace all its gas-powered leaf blowers
32: The number of sounds explored in director Sam Green’s new headphones-only documentary film (more below)
40,000: The fine, in $US, four companies have agreed to pay for “marketing their over-the-counter hearing aids as ‘FDA-approved’”
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¹Footnotes
Blowers: washingtonian.com. Film: variety.com. FDA: nhregister.com.
Originally published in the March 14, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter tinyletter.com/disquiet.