Environmental Downloads
FieldTurf synthetic turf products lead the industry by setting higher performance and environmental standards. With well over 15,000 sports and landscape installations, FieldTurf is the world’s most trusted brand of artificial turf and has steered a high growth industry in the proper direction by setting the strictest of environmental standards.
Download
The conclusions of this study validate key findings from other recent studies, demonstrating the rubber used in artificial turf is both cost-effective and safe.
Download
REAC concludes environmental factors on FieldTurf are of no concern; in many cases, FieldTurf provides an even better alternative to natural grass
Download
U.S. EPA gives a clean bill of health to artificial grass and synthetic turf
Download
California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment conducted a review of available literature entitled, “Chemicals and Particulates in the Air Above the New Generation of Artificial Turf Playing Fields, and Artificial Turf as a Risk Factor for Infection by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylcoccus Aureus (MRSA).”
The review concluded that “there is a negligible human health risk from inhaling the air above synthetic turf and it is unlikely that the new generation of artificial turf is itself a source of MRSA”
Download
This report presents the findings from a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) study, designed to assess potential environmental and public health impacts from the use of crumb rubber as infill material in synthetic turf fields.
Download
Conducted by Penn State University's Center for Turfgrass Science, the study found no trace of Staphylococcus aureus bacterium in any of the 20 infilled synthetic turf fields tested in various locations in Pennsylvania.
Download
With over 125 references and prepared by ChemRisk Inc, this 'Review of the Human Health & Exposure to Recycled Tire Rubber found at Playgrounds' for the Rubber Manufacturers Association, is an accurate and reliable source for evaluating the safety of ground rubber for recycled tires (SBR rubber).
Download
Everyone who reviews the facts understands the truth. But hysteria and wild claims of imminent danger, fed by those with their own industry agenda have found it easy to make headlines.
Download
Milone & MacBroom, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in environmental science, completed a study on the water quality, air quality, and temperature of three scholastic synthetic turf athletic fields infilled with crumb rubber and silica sand in Connecticut.
Download
