The community rightly argues that synthetic fields are an environmental disaster causing rubber and microplastics to leach into waterways. Even when they stay in place, they look ugly. And one day they’ll end up in landfill. Apart from the environmental impact, synthetic fields rob the locals of natural green space.
Artificial fields are not just bad for the environment but bad for sport. The 2015 Women’s Soccer World Cup was controversially played on synthetic fields. Even though the tournament was staged in Canada, players said it was like running “Some soccer and hockey clubs are all for the change, claiming fake turf allows more people to play more often, so they have the greater right to use urban open spaces.
Infrared image shows heat at a western Sydney playground taken in January 2020, with temperatures notching 90 degrees on the unshaded synthetic grass.Meanwhile, we don’t address the real issue; the failure of our planning laws that have allowed overdevelopment to choke up our cities, causing a boom in population without a corresponding increase in parkland and sporting infrastructure. The result is an ever-growing demand on existing sports fields.
It’s quite frankly disgraceful that the proposed solution to this problem is to remove natural grass fields, rather than planning properly in the first place. Meanwhile, the profits of property developers get prioritised over what is best for the community.There shouldn’t be a fight over who has the right to use our precious urban green spaces. Good planning laws would see more open space for everyone. That’s one of the main things that makes a liveable city, liveable.
We have to stop this urge to destroy nature and lay down fields of plastic. In the Wordsworth-like lament of Cat Stevens: “I know we’ve come a long way. We’re changin’ day to day. But tell me where do the children play?”
holy crap, i hate plastic grass. The people who came up with that idea should be in jail.
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