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Recycling
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We’re Even Greener Than We Look
¨ Abuse the turf. Save the earth. FieldTurf, the worldwide leader in artificial turf, saves billions of gallons of fresh water every year. It needs no herbicides, fungicides or pesticides – eliminating some of the 8 billion pounds of these harmful chemicals used each year in natural grass fields.
¨ Maintaining a FieldTurf field produces no pollutants from lawn mowers or other equipment normally needed to look after playing fields. Even cleaning grass stains with harmful detergents and bleaches, is a thing of the past.
¨ To complete the environmental process, FieldTurf has focused its efforts on recycling and has developed some innovative solutions in the process.
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We’re Even Greener Than We Look
¨ FieldTurf, always the market leader, is once again leading the pack relative to recycled turf technology.
¨ We have already completed the removal and recycling of several field installations.
¨ FieldTurf has also launched a “take back” program for both sports fields and landscape applications, whereby FieldTurf will provide customers with the option, in writing, that fields will be recycled at their end of their useful life when replaced with another FieldTurf system.
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By Products
¨ What happens once a field is removed and recycled? One pelletized, the polyethylene material can be used in hundreds of applications. Here are some of the applications that FieldTurf has worked with:
¢Coasters
¢ Park Benches
¢Recycled Infill
¢Garbage Cans
¢T-Shirts
¢School Bags
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Ground/Pelletized Turf Material
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Recycled Coaster
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Gillette Stadium – Recycled Coaster
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Recycled Infill
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Turf Removal – Traditional Method
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Turf Removal – Traditional Method
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Turf & Infill – The Next Generation
¨ FieldTurf has developed a patented method for the removal of infill from turf systems using the FieldTurf “Green Machine”.
¨ The Green Machine has the ability to remove both the turf rolls and infill – unharmed.
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FieldTurf Green Machine
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FieldTurf Green Machine
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Turf History at War Memorial Stadium
¨ In May 2010, FieldTurf set another industry first by recycling all useable parts of the artificial turf system at War Memorial Stadium in Arkansas.
¨ The field was removed and recycled after stadium officials decided to upgrade the surface to the very latest in artificial turf technology – FieldTurf Revolution.
¨ The recycled turf from War Memorial was shredded and converted into useable materials for new artificial turf applications.
¨ Since 2010 FieldTurf has set the standard for field recycling.
