Turf is often an overlooked industry. It is deemed as not exciting enough for every day conversation by the majority of society, but turf can be interesting! By the end of this article, you will be saying “Wow!” to turf.
Four Things about Turf that Make You Say Wow!
- Cool Down Turf on just eight average-sized front lawns can have a cooling affect of about 70 tons of air conditioning. The average house with a central air conditioner produces around three to four tons.
- Dust Catcher In the United States alone, turf is responsible for trapping a large part of the estimated twelve million tons of dirt and dust we release into the atmosphere yearly.
- Safety Net Using an egg drop test, you can see that dense turf is safer for playing fields than other options. When a dozen raw eggs were dropped from a height of eleven feet onto a 2 inch square of dense turf, none of them broke. When a dozen eggs were dropped from a height of just eighteen inches onto an all weather track, all of the eggs broke.
- Breathe Easy A fifty foot by fifty foot square of turf can produce enough oxygen to sustain a family of four. This same area also absorbs carbon dioxide, hydrogen fluoride and ozone.
Next time you have a conversation about turf, you can share these interesting facts with your friends. In no time at all, you will have them saying “Wow!” to turf, too.