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.

OPINION: Why I Still Oppose Artificial Turf (Especially at Ritzer Field)

OPINION: Why I Still Oppose Artificial Turf (Especially at Ritzer Field) The Village Green Jane Conrad, a South Orange-Maplewood resident, previously expressed her thoughts on natural grass versus artificial turf fields in this piece, ...

7 On Your Side: DC councilmember takes on artificial turf fields

7 On Your Side: DC councilmember takes on artificial turf fields WJLA This bill comes one day after 7 On Your Side reported that repairs are underway at Walter Johnson High School's artificial turf field in Bethesda with ...

Advocacy Group Rips Safety, Durability Of Artificial Turf Fields

Advocacy Group Rips Safety, Durability Of Artificial Turf Fields Forbes I have long been skeptical about artificial turf athletic fields. I played on one at Syracuse when I was a member of the Siena College soccer team in the ...

Increase in rugby injuries on artificial pitches, report reveals

Increase in rugby injuries on artificial pitches, report reveals

The Scotsman

The first thing to note is that, over the course of four years that the survey has dealt with artificial pitches, the frequency and severity of injuries on the AGPs is not statistically different to those played on grass. Over the first three years the numbers were slightly lower on AGPs so the spike of injuries in ...

Ground Zero: The Dangers That Artificial Turf May Pose To Football Players' Brains

Ground Zero: The Dangers That Artificial Turf May Pose To Football Players' Brains Forbes A few Pro Football Hall of Famers have spoken out loudly against concussions this past week. Most of what they have had to say has been about decreasing the chances of children sustaining head injuries caused by knocking each other in the noggin while playing the game. Some of their concern, ...

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 ...

Hardness Test Results Reveal Wider Scope Of Artificial Turf Failures

Hardness Test Results Reveal Wider Scope Of Artificial Turf Failures

DCist.com

The results of annual and emergency hardness tests on artificial turf tests reveal that seven failed fields were in use for months before the Department ...

The School Synthetic-Turf Wars

The School Synthetic-Turf Wars

The Atlantic

Artificial turf first entered the national spotlight in 1966, when it was installed at the Astrodome, then the brand-new home of Major League Baseball's ...

DC's artificial turf field hardness tests reveal standards discrepancy

DC's artificial turf field hardness tests reveal standards discrepancy

FOX 5 DC

WASHINGTON - FOX 5 has obtained records that detail the results of hardness tests of the D.C.'s 52 artificial turf fields, revealing some fields that ...

DC focused on new procedures for testing synthetic turf fields

DC focused on new procedures for testing synthetic turf fields

W*USA 9

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - Artificial turf fields in D.C. are causing big problems for some parents after learning more than a dozen fields failed safety ...

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 ...

Common sense dictates safety first with artificial turf

Common sense dictates safety first with artificial turf

Half Moon Bay Review

This week, the San Mateo County civil grand jury is recommending that school districts consider the safety of children before installing artificial turf ...

Do uneven standards, lax testing put high school players at risk on artificial turf?

Do uneven standards, lax testing put high school players at risk on artificial turf?

Idaho Statesman

In the past 11 years, Meridian, Eagle, Rocky Mountain and Middleton high schools bought into those promises, installing synthetic turf fields on their ...

Turf war breaks out with new plans for school's floodlit pitch

Turf war breaks out with new plans for school's floodlit pitch

Times of Tunbridge Wells

RESIDENTS who live near Tonbridge Grammar School are urging their local councillors to reject proposals for a new floodlit artificial turf sports pitch, ...

Hawthorne opposes artificial turf at Goffle Brook Park

Hawthorne opposes artificial turf at Goffle Brook Park

NorthJersey.com

HAWTHORNE — Borough officials are saying not so fast to plans by Passaic County to install an artificial turf field at Goffle Brook Park. Mayor Richard ...

Seeds of a Movement

Seeds of a Movement

East Hampton Star

The battle between the school and concerned parents over the conversion of football fields from natural grass to synthetic turf began in 2015.

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 ...

Why artificial turf may truly be bad for kid

Why artificial turf may truly be bad for kids

The Conversation US

If you want to get a soccer mom's attention, bring up the subject of artificial turf, the preferred playing surface for children from pre-K to college – or at ...