This article is more so on the argumentative side for the Center of Environmental Health. The organization is at high opposition with the existential use of crumb rubber in artificial turf fields. In fact, attached to this article is a petition for the readers to act. Their primary mission is “…to ensure playgrounds, play surfaces & athletic fields for young athletes are safe by meeting the standards for lead & harmful chemicals set out in law for children’s products.” Not only does the article present the basis of the problem of crumb rubber, but it also presents the solution. I plan to use the elaboration of various systems that divert from the use of crumb rubber in artificial turf. Turf with infill made from more natural resources are urged
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The perceptions and actions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the CDC, for example, are documented in the article. This is the exact reason that this source was chosen. The type of intel that this article withholds is rare to find. Also, the National Cancer Institute would know most about the types of cancers and their effects that artificial turf causes. I can really put the intel of cancer studies and actions of large corporations to …show more content…
"Bioaccessibility and Risk of Exposure to Metals and Svocs in
Artificial Turf Field Fill Materials and Fibers." Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 44-55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/risa.12081. Web.
An experiment was conducted to test exposure risks in artificial turf. Before the experiment, previous analysis around the United States proved that there was an extreme amount of exposure due to the crumb rubber infill in artificial fields. However, when the experiment that this journal documents was conducted, all results made exposure appear to be significantly low or non-existent. This raises a question about the shifting variables of this experiment. The measured levels of heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and semi-volatile organic compounds in the fields to were too low to impose any threat to humans. This leads me to believe that artificial turf is dangerous because these low-exposure chemicals become concentrated when all grouped together in field. The quantity of crumb rubber is what presents a danger to humans.
Pennington, Bill. "Artificial Turf Pops up as No. 1 Foe." New York Times, vol. 147, no.
The perceptions and actions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the CDC, for example, are documented in the article. This is the exact reason that this source was chosen. The type of intel that this article withholds is rare to find. Also, the National Cancer Institute would know most about the types of cancers and their effects that artificial turf causes. I can really put the intel of cancer studies and actions of large corporations to …show more content…
"Bioaccessibility and Risk of Exposure to Metals and Svocs in
Artificial Turf Field Fill Materials and Fibers." Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 44-55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/risa.12081. Web.
An experiment was conducted to test exposure risks in artificial turf. Before the experiment, previous analysis around the United States proved that there was an extreme amount of exposure due to the crumb rubber infill in artificial fields. However, when the experiment that this journal documents was conducted, all results made exposure appear to be significantly low or non-existent. This raises a question about the shifting variables of this experiment. The measured levels of heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and semi-volatile organic compounds in the fields to were too low to impose any threat to humans. This leads me to believe that artificial turf is dangerous because these low-exposure chemicals become concentrated when all grouped together in field. The quantity of crumb rubber is what presents a danger to humans.
Pennington, Bill. "Artificial Turf Pops up as No. 1 Foe." New York Times, vol. 147, no.