Plastic grass is more common in rental properties, starter homes, flats etc where the grassed area is already very small. Both neighbours either side of me have it. I can think of at least five other houses on my small estate that I know of that have it and those are only the ones I've had access to or can see. Easily one in ten here and more that have wall to wall decking or paving.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've noticed a few houses around here with artificial grass in the front garden, much much less than one in ten though. Maybe one in a few hundred. Many more have the front gardens completely or mostly paved or gravelled. No idea what people have in their back gardens, or whether the one in ten includes gardens like @Busy-Lizzie 's that have just a small bit of artificial grass for a particular purpose not as the main area of their garden.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I'd say one third of the gardens (front and back)in my street have plastic grass or are fully paved. They are small gardens (most less than five metres square) so easy to cover. Plastic grass really isn't a fringe concern any more.
A neighbour just pulled out her lovely front garden last week, which was a wildlife haven, and paved the whole thing over. She has plastic grass at the back and she loves it.
There's 2 or 3 on my estate that have it in the front. I don't know about the back gardens obviously, none that I can see from upstairs windows. Lots of paving, decking and concrete though. Seemingly few people interested in actual gardening, more about having outside entertainment areas. It's a newish build estate.
It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
There's 2 or 3 on my estate that have it in the front. I don't know about the back gardens obviously, none that I can see from upstairs windows. Lots of paving, decking and concrete though. Seemingly few people interested in actual gardening, more about having outside entertainment areas. It's a newish build estate.
It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
If there's no evidence, why should anyone believe it?
There's 2 or 3 on my estate that have it in the front. I don't know about the back gardens obviously, none that I can see from upstairs windows. Lots of paving, decking and concrete though. Seemingly few people interested in actual gardening, more about having outside entertainment areas. It's a newish build estate.
It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
If there's no evidence, why should anyone believe it?
Believe what? Clearly lots of people DO have plastic grass, whether that's 10% or 5% or 1%. It doesn't really matter does it. The point is that lots do, and it's terrible for the environment and should be discouraged in favour of more natural landscapes, pollinator and wildlife friendly planting etc.
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
There's 2 or 3 on my estate that have it in the front. I don't know about the back gardens obviously, none that I can see from upstairs windows. Lots of paving, decking and concrete though. Seemingly few people interested in actual gardening, more about having outside entertainment areas. It's a newish build estate.
It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
If there's no evidence, why should anyone believe it?
Believe what? Clearly lots of people DO have plastic grass, whether that's 10% or 5% or 1%. It doesn't really matter does it. The point is that lots do, and it's terrible for the environment and should be discouraged in favour of more natural landscapes, pollinator and wildlife friendly planting etc.
" it really doesn't matter"? Facts don't matter , so long as someone on telly says it? REALLY?
I must admit one of my daughters did put down plastic grass BUT it was on to concrete laid by the builders of a new estate. It was only to help sell the house and the buyers said they'd have done the same. The yard was meant to be a double car parking space but they ended up with 2 children who needed to play.
There's 2 or 3 on my estate that have it in the front. I don't know about the back gardens obviously, none that I can see from upstairs windows. Lots of paving, decking and concrete though. Seemingly few people interested in actual gardening, more about having outside entertainment areas. It's a newish build estate.
It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
If there's no evidence, why should anyone believe it?
Where do you think the millions of square metres of the stuff go? The evidence is based on how much is sold surely? The one in ten figure comes from an Aviva survey of over 2000 households last year and the amount of plastic grass sold increases annually. It's supposed to be over 100million square metres of the stuff sold in the UK by the end of the decade.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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It doesn't really matter whether it's exactly one in ten though, or a bit more or less, does it? The overall message is more about the loss of habitat/green space/flood risk/use of plastic and being unable to recycle it etc etc.
Facts don't matter , so long as someone on telly says it? REALLY?