Resources from Concerned Citizens

Friends of the Field, Chevy Chase, DC

This series of articles, prepared by Chevy Chase, DC citizens using publicly available information, address the growing risks associated with artificial turf playing fields. These were posted in their online community newspaper.

Hazards of excessive heat and increased injury have long been documented. New findings on the extreme toxicity of PFAS in artificial turf call into serious question its continued use. [Click on each title to view the article.]

1. What are PFAS? Why should we care about them?

2. Why residents across the city should care about what happens at the ECC field

3. How much exposure to PFAS is safe?

4. Boston has decided no new artificial turf fields

5. Heat Island

6. Injuries

7. What’s worse? Plastic turf or pesticides and fertilizer?

8. FROM CARBON SINK TO METHANE SOURCE

9. WHERE WILL MARET’S PLASTIC TURF END UP?

SYNTHETIC TURF – VIOLATION OF YOUR MS4 PERMIT?

BALTIMORE SYNTHETIC TURF PRESENTATION