“It’s incredibly dangerous to the players, the community and the Earth,” said Kyla Bennett, the director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit organization supporting “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and scientific integrity within their agencies” and one of the researchers who discovered PFAS in turf in Massachusetts in 2019. “PFAS, for example, there are three roots of exposure. It’s almost inevitable. Those little specks of crumb rubber and grass break down into micro- and nanoplastics, and they’re easy to ingest. You can also inhale them and dermally absorb them. So, why on Earth would you knowingly expose yourself or your children? You’re rolling in it, you’re diving on it, you’re breathing it.”
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