Synthetic turf can burn your feet - and maybe dim your wits.
The turf covering parts of a shut-down soccer field at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem was found to contain five times more lead than the Environmental Protection Agency allows in playground soil, according to City Council members Eric Gioia (D-Queens) and Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx).
Their statistics come from a report on a laboratory analysis done for the city Parks Department prior to the field’s closing in December.
The lead-filled substance in the synthetic turf is crumb rubber, made from old tires.
“You wouldn’t let your children play in a junkyard, but many of the same chemicals are in this material,” Gioia said. Read more..
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