As artificial turf becomes an increasingly popular option for sports fields and playgrounds, concerns are increasing about the ingredients of crumb rubber, the shredded tire bits that act as artificial soil and are made up of ingredients like lead.
From the story: “The Consumer Product Safety Commission, charged with protecting children from lead in consumer products, has promoted turf-and-rubber fields for nearly seven years with a website headline declaring them ‘OK to install, OK to play on.’ A news release says, ‘Young children are not at risk from exposure to lead in these fields,’ even though the commission found potentially hazardous lead levels in some turf fibers and did not test any rubber crumbs, which are made from recycled tires that contain roughly 30 hazardous substances including lead.”
Read the full story by USA Today.