For all of the great benefits that come with using a synthetic turf surface on football fields, it’s perhaps inevitable that there are also going to be the introduction of new injuries that would occur less frequently on a natural grass surface.
The injury in question occurs to football players and has been given the name [...]
Although synthetic grass has a relatively high up-front cost to it, there are significant savings to be made over the life of the covering when compared to the cost of maintaining a healthy lawn. This is particularly the case when it comes to sporting fields where high traffic and the requirement to play in all [...]
Another study into the toxicity of synthetic grass has been released in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. It has revealed that there were harmful chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chromium and lead is almost every single sample taken. Not only that but arsenic and cadmium were detected in most samples.
The [...]
Environment and Synthetic Grass