This neighbor isn't playing around about the use of artificial turf in Denver playgrounds.
Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain office director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, lives near Robinson Park at 200 Fairfax Street. When the park’s playground got an update thanks to a“I was so impressed and then I saw the artificial turf section and I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, why didn't they use bark like they did under the swings?’" Rosenthal recalls.
According to Robertson, the city is constantly monitoring the science behind PFAS but plans to continue using artificial turf until the science is definitive; he’s working with the DDPHE to help make that determination. “It's been a long, evolving scientific process,” he says. “To our knowledge, there isn't a direct or clear determination that there's negative effects at this time…we're definitely monitoring and keeping track of it.
During the meeting, Robertson said that the department has no plans to install additional artificial turf fields. And while there are plans to add artificial turf to playgrounds, unlike the artificial material that Parks & Recreation uses for fields, the product used for playgrounds,, doesn’t contain PFAS because it doesn’t have chrome rubber. Rather, it’s a plant-based product.
, sponsored by representatives Lisa Cutter and Mary Bradfield and senators Julie Gonzales and Pete Lee, passed through the House and is currently in the Senate Finance Committee. If the bill passes, the sale or distribution of carpets or rugs, cookware, cosmetics, fabric treatments, food packaging, juvenile products, oil and gas products, textile furnishings or upholstered furniture that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals would be prohibited starting in January 2024.
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