Environmentalist University of Nebraska at Lincoln Student Senator Fights The Turf!!
Monica Sanford, a graduate student in architecture and county regional planning, said she researched synthetic turfs and found reports that say the materials found in a synthetic turf would eventually harm the environment.
Sanford voted against the resolution.
Bill Goa Jr., senior associate director of campus rec, said he hasn’t found any reports of synthetic turf harming the environment.
“We would never, ever do anything to hurt the environment,” he said.
I would be curious to hear how turf hurts the environment more than, say, fertilizer, mower exhaust, and water consumption. I was always under the impression that it aided in reducing waste and pollution by recycling and grinding up all those pesky used tires for the underlayment and synthetic materials.
