We've just had a plastic lawn put in. AMA

[Imdunfer]

As title.

If you're going to raise climate issues please make sure you have your facts right before you post. There is a lot of incorrect PR and social media comment about plastic turf going around at the moment.

If you think my 10ftx15ft patch of fake grass is having a profound effect on the world around me then the educational defecit is yours, not mine.

I was answering a post that said that all lawn haters took multiple foreign holidays. Your lawn doesn't hurt my feelings at all, neither does my neighbours tiny plastic front lawn. There are lots of things in life that I dislike but don't hurt my feelings.

Do you apologise for it every time friends come over. I feel I’d always be doing that -making excuses for it.

Respectfully, that's the same educational deficit that says 'There's no environmental impact on me flying Ryanair to Italy for the weekend, because the plane would be going anyway!'

Actually, 'educational deficit' is a polite way of putting it.

There aren't any fumes that I can smell and I am a super-smeller and super-taster, a generic variant in the population.

The microplastics it might be shedding are going down into the soil not out to sea and no I am not worried about them while the world is using synthetic materials everywhere and wearing synthetic clothes.

Why did you choose artificial grass, instead of say, paving the area?

We put some in. The garden is tiered and there is one small section up some really awkward steps that it is almost impossible to get a mower to. We already have 2 large patio areas, a large rockery, and 2 fruit and veg patches so didn't want more of that. There is 1000 square metres of grassed lawn in an area that can be easily mowed. But this small area is near to the house and visible from the window and we wanted something softer there where the kids could play. It works really well for us.

I am disabled. There are all sorts of gardens you can have without needing mowing. Nor indeed plastic grass.
No need for a personal insult based on a short few lines on Mumsnet. I will not thankfully take it to heart.

I’ll go first : it looks like absolute crap. Whenever I see it, I think ‘too simpleminded to manage a real garden’.

Oh my god! This thread is the gift that keeps on giving 😂

I wouldn't have put it in if I thought I should ever apologise for it.

It is. Just like the likely afterlife of artificial lawns in landfill.

Maybe it isn't illegal for people to want outdoor space, fresh air and to sit in a deckchair 🤷‍♀️

@Imdunfer
No not really. What all of us do actually matters - you may think your patch of fake grass is irrelevant - it's not. And your attitude simply proves that your attention to and care of the environment around you is not your concern. Proves my point really.

Too infirm and too lazy to manage a real garden. Don't want to have to pay a gardener.

It looks lovely.

Are you my next door neighbour? She’s in exactly the same position with hers. It absolutely stinks.

It might be worth doing some research on the impacts of micro plastics on humans and the chemicals they contain which can be absorbed through the skin or breathed in when the product off gases.

I'm not saying there is a problem but I would seriously be concerned about this, particularly with a young child.

If it’s that small why haven’t you just planted it? There are things that grow well in shaded poor quality soil that would have looked lovely.

"Simple-minded?" I'd rather have fake grass than an ugly attitude. Real grass can be grown, but you clearly can't cultivate basic manners!

Because we didn't want to look out on paving.

Also see above ref the drainage that would have been required to pave a lawn which slopes towards the house.

We don't enjoy gardening and we don't want to pay a gardener.

"No true Scotsman" is a logical fallacy and makes you look silly.

Can you post a picture? Intrigued at how it looks

Intrigued? Google it.

So many virtue signalling hypocrites on this thread who love to preach to get your virtue points in for the day, but are too thick to realise that your one holiday flight this year generates way more carbon than my fake lawn ever will in all the years I have it!

But hey ho, let’s not let facts get in the way of things 😉