Is "crumb rubber" in soccer fields connected to cancer?

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More schools and city parks are switching from grass to synthetic turf fields for soccer, football, or just about any outdoor sport. But are these fields safe?
College soccer coach Amy Griffin has been asking questions about artificial turf, and something called crumb rubber which is used to fill the gaps between artificial grass blades and soften the field. These tiny rubber pellets are made from recycled tires, and The American Cancer Society says some chemicals found in tires could be carcinogenic over time.
Griffin has compiled a list of mostly soccer players who have come down with various forms of cancer. She believes more testing should be done to find out if the rubber in artificial turf fields is exposing athletes to cancer causing chemicals. Right now there is no evidence linking cancer to crumb rubber or synthetic turf fields.

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@malcolmtruman6467 2 жыл бұрын

A 3G shredded tyre longterm dumpsite called a 3G pitch was installed at Homewood School Kent UK right next to our once unique enchanting pond/lake which was a haven for all local wildlife. Within three months after the 3G pitch opened for business our pond/lake rapidly died. That was nearly five years ago and it has not recovered and probably never will. The rubber sweats chemicals in summer and store up in the substrate and when the rain comes the concentrated condensed chemicals leach into the water-table beneath the 3G shredded tyres dumpsite and because our pond.lake is so close and downhill the chemicals get regularly into our pond/lake. 90% of the wildlife that was here is now not here. Children up at the school are inhaling the same chemicals in the dust and fumes every second they exert on these toxic play surfaces. No authority has come here and our complaints have been passed around and in effect swept under all carpets. The School said PROVE IT. The school said they will go on poisoning our lake and the kids until such times as the Law tells them to stop. Now that the school has a toxic 3G pitch it is selling off its huge grass sports area to developer chums without the land going out to fair tender and 240 hoses are to be built on that land perhaps worth a Billion UK pounds in total. The school 3G pitch cost 500K. Is biodiversity and our kids be being sacrificed for profit? The same is happening all other the UK. Spent 3G rubber removed from these toxic dumpsites is now sold on eBay and Amazon for the general public to lace their gardens with thus circulating the toxic waste indefinitely. We have spent thousands of hours of hard work and so much money trying to save/restore our pond/lake only to be told by a geologist that we have wasted our money and our time because we will never be able to stop the chemicals from the water-table entering our waterway. Likewise children will always be inhaling the same horrific chemicals which those working in the rubber crumb industry say is safe and those making huge profits from grass land sales say is safe. The stuff is NOT safe and is why the Netherlands have removed all 3G sports fields at huge cost. Come and see our poisoned pond/lake. The evidence is in it and only needs to be investigated--not swept under more carpets indefinitely. Kids ARE BEING HARMED and so is biodiversity.

@coletanner5193 3 жыл бұрын

Used to dip Skoal but now I use Crum RubberMan..it's treated with nicotine so I still get my buzz

@5328889 8 жыл бұрын

The judge in New Zealand whether to remove crumb rubber turf soon. Let us wait and see.

@yoyodyne33 9 жыл бұрын

Correlation is not causation.

@clearmist7170 7 жыл бұрын

This reeks of conspiratorial thinking. How can she be so certain that it is specifically the crumb rubber that is causing this and not the artificial blades of grass or the chemicals that come from the paint that is on the goal posts. Or maybe it's the uniforms they were wearing. She's targeting one aspect, with no reason for why it is any more outstanding than any of the other things they come in contact with. Or as was also mentioned, maybe it's something that has nothing to do with soccer at all and instead has more to do with other environmental effects within the communities.

@malcolmtruman6467 Жыл бұрын

Tyres are made from toxic crude oil and toxic carbon-black to which is added hundreds of toxic chemicals to make vehicle tyres. The toxic chemicals do not disappear when shredded, instead each tyre grain perishes and decomposes faster via hot sun, frost, acid rain and pounding by sports shoes. This process breaks down the toxic tyre grains into micro-dust which is inhaled by children as they play. The only cospiracy is that this natural decaying process ,which releases toxic micro-dust in hot weather and forms a toxic paste in wet weather--is kept from the public and is therefore the real conspiracy which deliberately poisons children and the environment. It is obvious taht all materials break down over time and release compounds, dust and chemicals back to the Earth and no research should be required to prove the obvious especially when the tools to prove the obvious are not available or too expensive to implement. Keep all children away from perishing decomposing toxic shredded tyre grains used on playparks and sports fields. Shredded tyres also poion the water-table, brooks, streams and rivers. Only the corrupt or the insane would not agree with the above now that evidence from around the World is stark. A whole tyre decays in 100 years--shredded tyres decay 50 to 80 times faster. Sorry about spelling but I am sure you can work it out and arrive at the real truth about toxic perishing crumb rubber shredded tyre grains. Wake up all parents, school and health services.

@malcolmtruman6467 11 ай бұрын

Shredded tires perish perhaps 100 times faster when spread out on open land. They perish down to micro tire dust inhaled regularly by sporty children. Once in the developing lungs of so many children the micro tire dust further decomposes and some is transferred to the bloodstream and from there to all body organs, bone marrow and brain. Aging shredded tire sports fields also harbour harmful fungi mould and bacteria which on dry days is also inhaled. On wet days a paste of the micro tire dust gets on skin, into eyes and tear ducks, into skin pores and into all skin crevices and orifices. Shredded tires break down into their chemical form and most of the chemicals, compounds and admixtures are highly toxic. It is common sense that no child should be deliberately exposed to all this. We all need to think more about the obvious effect on children running around on hundreds of tons of erroding tires and balding fake grass. Please keep all kids away from perishing decomposing shredded tires as the risks are obvious and need no costly research taking 20 years or more to prove the obvious. Leachates from the perishing tire and fake grass mix also poison the water table under these pitches to harm aquatic ecosystems (evidence on request). Shredded tires are harmful and should be banned. A shredded tire sports field was installed 130 feet from and 30 feet higher than our once enchanting paradise pond/lake and within months (after heavy storms) our paradise, which took about 200 years to form, was ecologically wiped out. This prompted us to study why. We then releaised that the children using the shredded tyre pitch were also being slowly poisoned. People are so quick to shoot us down and we are ignored so that more toxic sports fields are installed in the UK whilst healthy prime location grass sports fields are sold off to developer chums to build estates on worth multi millions. Lastly the shredded tire sports fields wear out and then these shredded tire and fake grass dumpsites have to be disposed off properly. Millions of parents need to study how their children are deliberately exposed to micro tire dust for profit. Shredding up any manmade product and letting kids play on it is despicable. How do some people ignore the obvious? Full story on request.