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Why We Don’t Recommend Artificial Grass for Most People – kechambers

Why We Don’t Recommend Artificial Grass for Most People

  • Kathleen Ferguson, horticulturist, certified arborist, and landscape designer, Kathleen Ferguson Landscapes, email interview, August 26, 2020

  • James H. Baird Jr., PhD, associate cooperative extension specialist in turfgrass management and associate turfgrass horticulturist, University of California Riverside, email interview, August 14, 2020

  • Dave Burger, professor emeriti, University of California Davis Department of Environmental Horticulture, email interview, August 14, 2020

  • Corinna Garza, homeowner, in-person interview, September 27, 2020

  • George Neagle, executive vice president at SYNLawn, email interview, June 8, 2021

  • Purchase Green San Dimas, in-person interviews, May 28, 2021

  • Artificial Grass Guru, in-person installation site visit, May 12, 2021

  • Pasadena Garden Care, in-person installation site visit, May 13, 2021

  • Microplastics in the Environment 2019 (PDF), Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency), February 1, 2021

  • Mass balance of rubber granules lost from artificial turf fields, focusing on discharge to the aquatic environment (PDF), Danish Technological Institute, May 1, 2019

  • Ole Korbøl, Microplastics in freshwater sediments: An investigation of stream sediments downstream of artificial football turfs (PDF), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, May 10, 2018

  • Ran Li, Tracking Microplastics from Artificial Football Fields to Stormwater Systems (PDF), Stockholm University Department of Physical Geography, May 17, 2019

  • 2020 Synthetic Turf Market Report for North America, Synthetic Turf Council, June 12, 2020

  • James E. Voos, MD, Artificial Turf Versus Natural Grass, University Hospitals Sports Medicine Institute and Case Western Reserve University, August 27, 2019

  • Marjie Lundstrom, Eli Wolfe, and FairWarning,, The Dangerous Pileup of Artificial Turf, The Atlantic, December 19, 2019

  • Ben Pilkington, The Future of Artificial Turf Recycling, Waste Advantage Magazine, March 30, 2021

  • Isabella Kaminski, Turf it out: is it time to say goodbye to artificial grass?, The Guardian, August 2, 2019

  • Megan Garber, The Life and Death of the American Lawn, The Atlantic, August 28, 2015

  • David Salman, Experts Choices for Xeric Turfgrass & More, Turf, December 28, 2020

  • Brian Dulik, NFLPA asking teams to change all fields to natural grass, Associated Press, September 30, 2020

  • Beau Yarbrough, Artificial turf fields are failing across Southern California, costing millions. Here’s why. Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, May 25, 2018

  • FieldTurf Class Action Lawsuit, Robertson Associates LLP, June 1, 2017

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