From an athletic facilities maintenance perspective, the synthetic turf field at Summit High School in Bend is an enviable asset. The recycled rubber infill absorbs players’ falls, and it never turns ...

Environmentally conscious sports fans are looking to replace rubber and plastic in artificial turf with natural materials like walnuts. It’s more expensive, but cleaner and greener if grass isn’t an ...

LAS VEGAS — Five artificial turf fields are on tap to be replaced in the Clark County School District in Nevada in the wake of an investigation that exposed dangerous conditions, lack of safety ...

Have you ever watched a football or soccer game on TV and seen those little black balls splash up from the field when a player runs or slides? They are tiny little pieces of recycled tires, called ...

Representatives of the Safe Healthy Playing Fields Coalition spoke to the WMCCA about the health and environmental issues related to artificial turf at the December general meeting. Kathy Michels, a ...

THE WOODLANDS — Concerns over a possible link between artificial turf and cancer was the driving force behind The Woodlands Township Board Member Mike Bass urging fellow board members to remove the ...

Walnut shells, olive pit and coconut are a few of several options the Carson City Board of Supervisors will consider Thursday — not as part of any diet but as infill material for an artificial turf ...

Jai-Tire Inc. has become essentially the sole supplier of crumb rubber to International Surfacing of Colorado for use as artificial turf infill. The value of the contract and the amounts of crumb ...