{"id":109601,"date":"2019-08-02T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/turf-it-out-is-it-time-to-say-goodbye-to-artificial-grass\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:06:06","slug":"turf-it-out-is-it-time-to-say-goodbye-to-artificial-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/turf-it-out-is-it-time-to-say-goodbye-to-artificial-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf it out: is it time to say goodbye to artificial grass?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s neat, easy \u2013 and a staggering \u00a32bn global market. But as plastic grass takes over our cities, some say that it\u2019s green only in colourIf your attention during the Women\u2019s World Cup was on the pitch rather than the players, you might have noticed that the matches were all played on real grass. That was a hard-won change, made after the US team complained to Fifa that they sustained more injuries on artificial turf.In private gardens, however, the opposite trend is happening: British gardens are being dug up and replaced with plastic grass. But this isn\u2019t the flaky, fading stuff on which oranges were once displayed at the greengrocer. Today\u2019s artificial grass is nearly identical to the real thing. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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It\u2019s neat, easy \u2013 and a staggering \u00a32bn global market. 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