Artificial Turf is Costly, Unsafe

Artificial Turf is Costly, Unsafe wvdispatch.com There might be some advantages to artificial turf, but we find these fields to be hot, smelly and hard on the players' skin, causing nasty abrasions.

Tyre crumb toxicology study raises questions about artificial turf

Tyre crumb toxicology study raises questions about artificial turf

Chemistry World

Artificial turf containing crumb rubber from shredded tyres has become increasingly common on playgrounds and running tracks. Despite anecdotes ...

Neighbors Voice Concern about Dust Spread At B-CC Turf Field Site

Neighbors Voice Concern about Dust Spread At B-CC Turf Field Site BethesdaMagazine.com Work to install a new artificial turf field at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School was halted Wednesday after neighbors raised concerns about ...

Potentially toxic dust cloud from artificial turf field settles over Bethesda neighborhood

Potentially toxic dust cloud from artificial turf field settles over Bethesda neighborhood WUSA9.com BETHESDA, Md. — Video and pictures taken Tuesday by neighbors of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School show clouds of construction dust kicked ...

Johnsons Lawn Seed warns over artificial turf

Johnsons Lawn Seed warns over artificial turf Horticulture Week Johnsons Lawn Seed has warned that reports of rising sales of artificial turf could damage the garden industry's green image and undermine the ...

Uncertainty surrounds disposal of mounds of artificial turf in Cleona

Uncertainty surrounds disposal of mounds of artificial turf in Cleona Lebanon Daily News Mayor Larry Minnich informed the borough council that Cleona has a huge depository of used artificial sports turf within is boundaries and no one has ...

TURF WAR: Parents protest artificial turf approved by Montgomery County school board

TURF WAR: Parents protest artificial turf approved by Montgomery County school board FOX 5 DC ROCKVILLE, Md. - Kids in sports spend hours on the field. And to remain competitive, Montgomery County wants to continue to add artificial turf fields to its schools. “Grass does not support the kind of usage that these high schools have,” explained Andrew Hosker, a Montgomery County parent. But it's a ...

MD lawmakers debate turf field health risks

MD lawmakers debate turf field health risks The Campus Current Maryland lawmakers are debating whether the chemicals in synthetic turf make it unsafe for athletes and the environment. They are considering a bill that would stop schools and recreation centers in the state from using government funds to build or replace sports fields or playgrounds with turf made of ...

New report challenges synthetic turf industry's safety claims

New report challenges synthetic turf industry's safety claims

Stratford Star

The debate over artificial turf fields and playground surfaces versus natural grass for youth and school sports and play areas may get renewed with ...

Industry Groups Comment on Misleading and Inaccurate EHHI Report - Business Wire (press release)

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New Report on Synthetic Turf Fields Suggests Industry's Claims of Safety Do Not Hold Up

New Report on Synthetic Turf Fields Suggests Industry's Claims of Safety Do Not Hold Up to ...

PR Newswire (press release)

7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) is releasing its new report Synthetic Turf: Industry's Claims Versus the Science ...

Meeting on dangers of artificial turf fields being held Saturday

Meeting on dangers of artificial turf fields being held Saturday

Times Herald-Record

HIGHLAND FALLS – Patricia Wood, executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, will speak about the dangers of artificial turf fields at 3 ...

Opposition to Turf Fields Starts Petition in North Haven

Opposition to Turf Fields Starts Petition in North Haven

Zip06.com

The topic of artificial turf fields with crumb rubber infill has become a controversial topic in town over the past few months, and concerned residents ...

Turf War

Turf War

TAPinto.net

However, the rubber black dots on the artificial turf, are causing cancer and diseases in many athletes. Many of them are diving, falling or being ...

Resident calls for natural grass fields, cites turf risks

Resident calls for natural grass fields, cites turf risks

Seacoastonline.com

PORTSMOUTH — Resident Lindsey Carmichael believes the best option for the city as it debates which synthetic turf infill to use for its new athletic ...

Rubber granules in artificial turf may be harmful after all: university

Rubber granules in artificial turf may be harmful after all: university

NL Times

Rubber granules used in artificial turf may have detrimental health effects after all, according to a study by the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam which ...

Profits vs. safety: What new findings about FieldTurf tell us about the future of sports

From Sports Illustrated: A new series of articles shows how the synthetic playing surface is more dangerous than first realized. ...read more

Blumenthal calls for probe of rubber used in new Plainville field

Blumenthal calls for probe of rubber used in new Plainville field

Bristol Press

5/26/2016 Mike Orazzi | Staff The Plainville High School Band during the dedication of the new artificial turf field at Plainville High School on Thursday.

County Turns Down School Board Turf Testing Conditions: 'You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves'

County Turns Down School Board Turf Testing Conditions: 'You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves'

Loudoun Now

County supervisors turned down the School Board's conditions for testing artificial turf fields in a decision punctuated by an excoriating rant by ...

Supervisors refuse to hand over additional crumb rubber infill testing funds - Loudoun Times-Mirror

Call for inquiry into health effects of rubber in artificial pitches

Call for inquiry into health effects of rubber in artificial pitches

Irish Times

On Wednesday in Asheville, North Carolina, plans to replace the artificial turf at the John B Lewis Soccer Complex in Asheville got under way ...

School board considers crumb rubber turf options

School board considers crumb rubber turf options

Oak Bay News (registration)

Parents raised health concerns about the use of crumb rubber pellets commonly used as underlay for artificial turf. “All information that is available to ...