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Don't forget about the heavy metals in tire dust.
by zip1234 4y ago
Don't forget about the heavy metals in tire dust.
- klipt 4y agoIsn't it just wonderful how many children's playgrounds are carpeted with recycled tire rubber?
- tristor 4y agoActually, yes. This is a viable and relatively safe way to recycle tires, which otherwise would be a horrifying ecological disaster (most non-recycled tires end up going into caches that end up catching fire, tire fires are some of the worst things for the environment). During the processing of tire rubber to be used as playground mulch, it's cleaned, and most of the worst contaminates are removed. The worst thing in the recycled tires isn't heavy metals it's carbon black, and in both cases it shouldn't matter unless your children are eating the tire mulch.
- No1 4y agoNo, it's not a good idea to dispose of toxic waste on playgrounds. The stuff flakes apart over time and degrades in sunlight, and generally ends up everywhere in the vicinity of the TDP padding. Soccer goalies are just the canary in the coalmine. https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/artificial-turf-cancer-study-profile/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/artificial-turf-cancer...
- asdff 4y agoEvery turf field I've stood upon has had a strong offgassing smell too. That can't be great spending hours inhaling plastic fumes playing sports either.
- Pokepokalypse 4y agoSo how about that pressure-treated lumber that they make the playground equipment with? Filled with Arsenic.
- moistly 4y agoCCAs haven’t been used for decades. Modern treatments are mostly copper or borate compounds. https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/overview-wood-preservative-chemicals https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/over...
- YeBanKo 4y ago> unless your children are eating the tire mulch. Have you been to children playgrounds? This is exactly what they are going to do, at least once, at least try. On top of constantly touching it with they hands and then touch with everything else, falling on the ground, etc.
- moistly 4y agoPlus, of course, breathing in the dust.
- alfor 4y agoThe chemical smell from those things baking in the sun is horrific. Calling it a toxic disaster and concentrating it in a area of play is plain insane. In a few years we will find out why it made no sense and then they will have to tear them out.