Synthetic Lawns Are More Environmentally Friendly Than Grass

Contrary to popular opinion maintaining a natural grass lawn is far more environmentally destructive than replacing it with a synthetic grass lawn. So many opponents of synthetic lawns will have you believe that putting it in the backyard in place of your grass will destroy the soil beneath it as well as the microbial activity and macro-organisms in the soil. These same people conveniently overlook the effects of concrete, tile and paving surfaces on the same ground.

Where synthetic lawn gives you such a great environmental benefit is that it replaces one of the most water thirsty plants on the planet. Grass will soak up as much water as you can feed it, green up for a day or two before beginning to wilt and turn brown again as it goes in search of another massive drink. Grass is made up of thousands upon thousands of individual grass plants all interwoven with each other. They are all enormous consumers of water and need it on a regular basis.

Maintenance of grass is mandatory. You cannot have a natural grass lawn and let it grow wild, otherwise the grass will be armpit deep and snakes and other unfriendlies will be living in it. Your grass lawn will require regular mowing and the traditional gas lawnmower spews out pollution and carbon emissions at a phenomenal rate. The old two-stroke is hardly the most efficient machine ever built and the nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide released into the atmosphere every time you cut the grass rivals the pollution produced by automobiles every year.

Replacing your grass with a synthetic grass lawn will immediately remove the need to start up the lawnmower and so, the source of a regular outflow of pollution.

You rarely hear anyone acknowledging the fact that by pottering around in the backyard we are contributing significantly to the carbon pollution that is currently dominating many minds. A synthetic lawn will allow an even more valuable commodity to be collected and that is time. By no longer having to spend as much time on the general maintenance duties that come with keeping the grass up to a certain standard, it gives you the time to concentrate your attention elsewhere.

Synthetic grass lawns are not for everybody, this is undeniable. But the arguments that many people use against the artificial alternative are largely inaccurate. If the truth were acknowledged it is simply that synthetic lawn is a new product and people are naturally wary of things that are new.