Question: Is artificial grass better for the environment than real grass, if so how, if not why do we have it???

Thomas Perriment answered on 21 Jun 2018:

Artificial grass isn’t really better for the environment, it’s almost exclusively beneficial to humans! We use it for decoration mostly, as sometimes the environment is too harsh to sustain natural grass or having natural grass would be too expensive/difficult to maintain. Most artificial grasses are actually plastic, which usually comes from synthetic plastics! The main “ingredients” in artificial grass are polyethylene (same as plastic bags), polypropylene, and nylon. The production of these plastics is not good for the environment, so even though artificial grass itself doesn’t damage the world, it’s production does, and it takes up the space that natural grass (which helps the world!) could have otherwise been! Great question!