Grass helps the environment

It's been proven that grass positively helps fight global warming producing more oxygen than trees!

Did you know... Grass is good for the environment helping to lower carbon emissions and have been proven to produce oxygen more effectively than trees...

Lawn is a major source of beauty and comfort in our lives and a cleansing answer for our environment. It absorbs carbon dioxide, produces oxygen, acts as a filter for our water ways and cools the area around our homes. Turf has a positive role to play in combatting the build up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by the burning of fossil fuels and a range of other human activities (driving cars, energy consumption, CO2 pollutants etc). In this way turf can help in the fight against global warming. It absorbe carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil having a greater flexibility to do this than trees - which means it can also produce oxygen more efficiently! Studies have shown that grasses keep absorbing carbon even at high levels of carbon dioxide, unlike trees which shut down when overloaded. Sir Walter greatly reduces heat, the temperature of a sir walter lawn during summer is 10 degrees cooler than bare soil, 20 degrees cooler than concrete and 40 degrees cooler than dry synthetic turf. In fact an average front lawn has the cooling affect of 8.5 tonnes of air conditioning without the accompanying negative affects on the environment. An average home air conditioner only has a 3-4 time capacity and increases carbon dioxide emissions. Something else you may not know is that there are a huge number of good bacteria and fungi in every lawn that can break down any organic pollutant. Grass provides a greater cooler affect than trees and can achieve the same as an open pool or lake, 40% less wasteful than water evaporation. Another great thing about having a healthy lawn around your home if you live in a bushfire region is it helps reduce the risk of bushfire damage.

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