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The plastic lawn backlash: why people are pulling up their fetid fake grass
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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There were people in another similar thread unironically saying they needed there fake grass because "muh dog shit and piss!". Ok maybe a burnt patch in the grass is unsightly, but so is fake grass, no one has ever said "wow, that fake grass looks as good as the real thing!" At least the soil can take away and break down the piss, where as it just sits on top of the astroturf. Disgusting.
Imagine having to try and clean off a runny dog turd that is slowly sinking into your plastic lawn. You can blast it with a hose and turn it into a pool of dog shit slurry; if the lawn is on slope you can try to encourage it to slurp downhill.
I wouldn't want my entire yard of the shit, but I did buy a section to put on my deck for my dog that was no longer able to walk up and down the stairs. I put some clamps on the hand rail so I could hang it and hose it off afterwards because it did stink bad if I didn't.
There are other issues which come with artificial lawns too:
A friend of mine has an artificial lawn and hot ash from her neighbours' barbeques has made holes in it.
And my nextdoor neighbours have a cheap artificial lawn that now has weeds growing through it.
I moved in to a house with plastic grass, it's only a tiny patch so to be honest I don't mind, it wouldn't be worth mowing. But I'd rather it was just a flowerbed or something. Why would you want a garden if you don't like nature!
This should be banned, tbh.
I find the fake grass useful to hide ugly concrete, but I would never prefer it over real grass. Still, banning the product seems a little odd.