« Selecting Landscaping Plants or Trees For Your Garden Design | Home | Irrigation supplies : Designing watering method for Garden »
Synthetic Grass has Environmental Positives
By Therese | November 13, 2008
People have many options for coming up with ways they can do their bit to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle - the ways to do so are endless.The environment and how we treat it remains a hot issue in today’s society.
Our carbon emissions output can be lowered in a variety of ways because virtually each choice we make in our day to day life has some kind of impact on our carbon footprint.
Perhaps one of the ways to benefit the environment that you haven’t given any thought to is the kind of lawn you maintain. Typically, by far the most common sight in the yards of houses the world over lawns are made of natural grass with few, if any people considering the possible benefits they might get from switching to synthetic grass..
Much work put into synthetic grass technology, particularly in the area of copying the look and feel of the fake turf. These days it is getting increasingly difficult to detect the artificial grass compared to real turf.
There are some factors to consider that go into keeping up a healthy, green lawn:
- Lawns require fertilizers, pesticides and weed killers.
- Healthy, green, well-grassed lawns require regular watering.
- Lawns need regular trims with the lawnmower..
- It costs money to keep up a lush, green lawn..
Just think replacing your ailing lawn with a synthetic grass equivalent addresses each of these environmental matters. Adding chemicals into the ground will have a cumulative effect on the ecosystem with the chemicals leeching away into our water systems. In drought afflicted areas, using it to water our grass is essentially a luxury we can’t afford.
An alternative worth considering, for the sake of the environment, first and foremost and then for your hip pocket in the long run is replacing the labour intensive grass lawn with a synthetic lawn.
If you live in areas where drought has been a big issue, water restrictions are a regular occurrence. The first thing to suffer during such critical times is the lawn which quickly goes brown and dies off. In extreme circumstances the grass disappears forever and you’re left living in a house surrounded by a dust bowl.
The aged|infirm] should also be considered here. As you get older your ability to keep the lawn will dissipate as will your access to money to pay for the upkeep. Replacing the grass with artificial grass may well be the answer.
Synthetic grass comes with many positives such as the fact that much less maintenance time is required for its upkeep, the need for watering is removed, heavy traffic won’t affect the ground, it’s visually appealing all year round and it’s better for the environment because it removes the need for a lawnmower and chemical application.
It’s during summer that the grass will need trimming once a week as the lawn takes off and grows like at no other time. Running the lawnmower every week is just another source of carbon being added to the atmosphere, no matter whether you own a petrol powered lawnmower or an electric lawnmower.
Synthetic grass will help the environment at an exponential rate over time, too, with every drop of water not used on your grass, every second the lawnmower hasn’t had to run and every atom of chemical that hasn’t been poured. The result puts the environment in an even better position than it otherwise would be.
The monetary savings are the bonus that will convince people that synthetic grass is a worthwhile alternative. This should just be a starting point for you in your decision into whether synthetic grass is a aceptable alternative for you.
Topics: synthetic grass |
Comments
Fatal error: Call to undefined function display_cryptographp() in /home/tersey/public_html/MyBlog/wp-content/themes/clean-copy-right-sidebar/comments.php on line 102