If your school has a turf field

[Anonymous]

If your school has a turf field has the school adressed any of the recent links between the fields and cancer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your school has a turf field has the school adressed any of the recent links between the fields and cancer?

I would say "links" is being generous, given that the news story is about someone who thought turf gives soccer players cancer and then asked soccer players with cancer to self-identify. The specific cancers (leukemia and lymphoma) have a relatively high background rate in the general population. So far as I know, anyone with a scientific, medical, or epidemiological background has been very dismissive of the decision to give the story air play.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the jury is in. There's not enough data; it hasn't been researched.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265067/

[Anonymous]

Blair high school has a big warning outside the athletic field entrance saying that eating turf is hazardous to your health.... I'm serious about the sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blair high school has a big warning outside the athletic field entrance saying that eating turf is hazardous to your health.... I'm serious about the sign.

I love Blair.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by " addressed" op? What, exactly, are they supposed to do? Call a press conference? Send home yet another letter? Have every student sign a statement saying they understand potential risks involved in playing on fake turf, versus pesticides on grass fields? Cancel all sports and outdoor activities because there is no agreement on which surface is safer?

Sorry but your question as worded is a silly one

[Anonymous]

What about BPA ingress from artificial turf vapors?

[Anonymous]

What about the fact that those little black recycled tire pellets are draining into our water source every time it rains?

[Anonymous]

The new turf field at the Kentlands does not have the black pellets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the fact that those little black recycled tire pellets are draining into our water source every time it rains?

I'd rather they GO into the water supply. Right now they are just all over our house...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new turf field at the Kentlands does not have the black pellets.

Exactly and this is an easy fix, they vacum out the old pellets and fill with cork like the Lakelands MS field.

[Anonymous]

They are also really hot in the summer. And I mean really, really hot

[Anonymous]

It's bad stuff people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new turf field at the Kentlands does not have the black pellets.

Exactly and this is an easy fix, they vacum out the old pellets and fill with cork like the Lakelands MS field.

I plan to start a business recycling corks from wine consumed at NW DC cocktail parties. I am looking for partners whose contribution will be to whittle the corks into artisanal turf filler and vacuum out the existing rubber filler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new turf field at the Kentlands does not have the black pellets.

Exactly and this is an easy fix, they vacum out the old pellets and fill with cork like the Lakelands MS field.

I plan to start a business recycling corks from wine consumed at NW DC cocktail parties. I am looking for partners whose contribution will be to whittle the corks into artisanal turf filler and vacuum out the existing rubber filler.

If I can drink wine why whittling, you have your first business partner!