Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Ph.D, and J.D., says: “The things that are wrong with it are plentiful.” She relates how artificial turf emits carbon dioxide and methane, cannot be recycled, and causes “worse injuries for the athletes on them than natural grass.”
Bennett says government on the federal level “has not been doing what it should be doing” about artificial turf. But communities and several states have been taking action, she says.