The plastic lawn backlash: why people are pulling up their fetid fake grass

As with all plastics, all this fake grass will continue to be a problem even when it’s removed. We can either burn it or leave it in landfill to ever so slowly decompose into billions of bits of microplastic.

It should have been banned a long time ago, but we only ever address things when it's already too late.

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.

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.

https://feddit.uk/post/852360 earlier related discussion

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.