The environment and how we treat it remains a hot issue in today's society. Our carbon emissions output can be improved in many ways because virtually every single choice we make in our day to day life has some kind of consequence on our carbon footprint.
A possible area of change may be in your own backyard, literally. If you're like the majority of people, the lawn in your yard will be made of some kind of living grass. As distinct from artificial grass.
There are some factors to consider that go into maintaining a healthy, green lawn:
- Lawns require pesticides, weed killers and fertilizers.
- Healthy, green, well-grassed lawns require regular watering.
- Natural grass needs to be cut regularly with the lawnmower
- It costs money to maintain a healthy, green lawn.
Just think replacing your brown lawn with a synthetic grass equal addresses each of these environmental matters. Adding chemicals into the soil will have a cumulative effect on the environment with the chemicals leeching away into our water systems. In drought afflicted areas, using it to water our grass is essentially a a luxury we can't afford.
Another factor to take into consideration is the elderly. As you age your ability to cut the lawn will lessen as will your access to money to pay for the upkeep. Replacing the grass with artificial grass may well be the answer.
If you live in areas that suffers drought, you will have experienced water restrictions the likes of which haven't been felt before. The very last priority during such critical times is the grass which quickly dies off and goes brown. In extreme circumstances the soil is compacted, the grass disappears forever and you're left living in a house surrounded by a dust bowl.
There are a lot of advantages to using artificial grass such as the low maintenance aspect, the need for watering is removed, heavy traffic won't affect the ground, it's visually appealing all year round and it's less polluting because you don't need a lawnmower and chemical application| the need for watering is removed, the low maintenance aspect, heavy traffic won't affect the ground, it's visually appealing all year round and it's less polluting because you don't need a lawnmower and chemical application| the need for watering is removed, it's visually appealing all year round, the low maintenance aspect, heavy traffic won't affect the ground and it's less polluting because you don't need a lawnmower and chemical application.
The growth rate of grass in summer is so great that your lawn needs mowing weekly as the lawn takes off and grows like at no other time. Running the lawnmower each week is just another source of carbon being added to the atmosphere, it doesn't matter whether you own a petrol powered lawnmower or an electric lawnmower.
Switching from natural grass to artificial grass will make a large difference to your carbon footprint and will be helping to do your bit for saving the environment. Artificial grass will benefit the environment at an increasing rate over time, too, with every second the lawnmower hasn't had to run, every drop of water saved 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 added bonus that over the long term you will also be saving yourself quite a lot of money.
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