SHPFI provides facts and research on why natural grass playing fields and natural surface playgrounds are superior to their synthetic imitators.
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
9 Jul 2025
Below is proof that artificial turf is not the “all-weather” playing surface it’s promoted to be.
It’s plastic. 🙄
It gets dangerously hot in the sun.
In contrast, real grass, thanks to evapotranspiration, serves as a natural air conditioner.
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
8 Jul 2025
“Why does artificial grass pose a threat to the environment?”
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
30 Apr 2025
I’m starting to have a really hard time believing that the entire world isn’t just screwing with me. I feel like I’m on the Truman Show. South Park has nothing on this.
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5 Mar 2025
Follow us now on BlueSky! We ♥️ blue skies 💙 and green natural grass fields 💚!bsky.app/profile/shpfi.bsky.…
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
9 Nov 2024
“hundreds of artificial turf filaments” 😞
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8 Nov 2024
The Barcelona plastic soup receipt: thousands of colourful fragments, some transparent films and plastic bags, lots of wrappers, some pellets, and hundreds of artificial turf filaments. And in the beach: wet wipes, a disproportionate amount of wet wipes...
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
21 Aug 2024
State officials in @RhodeIslandDEM warn #burrillville RI about installation of #syntheticturf following #pfas contamination in North Smithfield #toxicturf @SHPFC @PlasticsBeyond @JustZeroOrg @charlesriver #toxicturf #plasticgrass
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
27 Jul 2024
🧵#Burrillville Rhode Island Residents are currently fighting a hot toxic plastic grass installation and have engaged in legal action against the project.
👉Please support their GOFUNDME DONATE NOW👈 gofundme.com/f/ensure-safe-g…
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27 Jul 2024
🧵#Burrillville Rhode Island Residents are currently fighting a hot toxic plastic grass installation and have engaged in legal action against the project.
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27 Jul 2024
Learn more about Burrillville's fight to stop pollution of their💧water supply environment from #PFAS, microplastics tire waste infill here: ecori.org/burrillville-resid…
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27 Jul 2024
#Burrillville Town Leadership has already decided the testing they are executing without oversight is safe. But advocates know better! (Pic source: Facebook 7/26/24)
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
18 Jul 2024
Broken promises: Artificial turf from fields not being recycled bostonglobe.com/2024/07/18/s… via @BostonGlobe
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
16 Jun 2024
The 🥵 heat is here 🌡️ help collect temperature data at a #syntheticturf or Playground surface near you. All guidance is in the form. @SHPFC @enckj @NOAA @alroker @nrdcadapts_rob @PlasticsCrisis @PoliticalHeat24 #climatecrisis #urbanheat
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
15 Jun 2024
A masterclass in stepping UP!🙌 Keith demonstrates here how we all need to fight this pandemic of plastic carpet that’s poisoning our sports fields, our wildlife and of course ourselves @Sport_England @FootballFoundtn @familyECOlife facebook.com/100081462220341…
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
21 Feb 2024
“you’ll learn that what makes Todd Haynes’ 2019 film so disturbing is not only that it’s all true, but that each of us is far more intimate with its antagonist than we’d imagine.”
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20 Feb 2024
Dark Waters: unsung Todd Haynes legal drama addressing #PFAS #Foreverchemcials is a masterclass in dread theguardian.com/culture/2024…
@Taftlaw @DarkWatersMovie #ExposureBook @Participant @MarkRuffalo @thinkfilmimpact @rightlivelihood
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
10 Jan 2024
🚨🧵Let’s talk about why you should question everything and look into what companies write in a press release. 🚨 For example: @TenCateGrassUS @TenCateGrass the term Sustainable Plastics maybe on the top ten list of oxymorons. #wishcycling #pfas #plasticgrass
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
10 Jan 2024
Here’s why: @enckj posted about this 2 days ago. And BIG PS: we can’t “recycle” a god damn ⭐️Starbucks or Dunkin cup so don’t believe for a second a plastic field is recyclable or good for your community’s children.
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7 Jan 2024
Beyond Plastics report slams chemical recycling as a ‘dangerous deception’ | Waste Dive wastedive.com/news/beyond-pl…
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Latest in @PhillyInquirer’s artificial turf investigative series by @barbaralaker and @dgambacorta with 📸 by @monica_herndon inquirer.com/news/pennsylvan…
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
13 Dec 2023
Re-Match secured state incentives to open a recycling plant in 2022. It hasn't happened yet.
Meanwhile, thousands of rolls of artificial turf, containing PFAS, are piled up on farms.
Here's how Pa. became a dumping ground for discarded artificial turf: inquirer.com/news/pennsylvan…
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Safe Healthy Fields retweeted
10 Nov 2023
Burning plastic with or without oxygen, with or without added chemicals is harmful to the the environment & human health and is NOT 'recycling'! It gobbles fuel just to do the deed & creates more waste & pollution Just #BreakFreeFromPlastic ! @SHPFC @AAAS_SciComm @AAAS_SRJ
9 Nov 2023
Join @plasticsbeyond & @toxicsfree Nov. 28 & dive into their #ChemicalRecycling report’s findings with experts. 🔗 ow.ly/h5Hl50Q33Wc #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes. Huge step forward! #6PPD has been found in used tired crumb #ToxicTurf playing fields and has been found to be bioaccessible. @tttonytian @SHPFC uk.news.yahoo.com/u-regulato…
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