Note that the Tweed Council 15th May Monthly Meeting Agenda Items includes: “Synthetic Grass in Tweed Holiday Parks”, submitted to the meeting by the Director of Sustainable Communities and Environment.
The agenda item reads:
“At the Ordinary Meeting held 18 July 2024, Council resolved to endorse the Tweed Holiday Parks 2023 -2034 Strategic Plan. Within this resolution, Council required the General Manager to finalise and bring back a report on potential risks associated with the use of synthetic grass in Holiday Parks, alternatives to its use and a detailed asset management plan to best manage the use of synthetic grass in the Holiday Parks to mitigate the risk of microplastic and Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution and to ensure recycling at the end of life of the product.
“This report [to be submitted at the meeting] addresses the abovementioned requirement relating to the use of synthetic grass in Tweed Holiday Parks.”
Link to Agenda and minutes.
The CEC note the growing awareness of the public to the issue of plastic molecule emissions from plastics, especially from materials undergoing changes in temperature or in direct sunlight. We are all becoming more aware of our unwanted ingestion of plastic molecules and the retention of these molecules in our bodies.
Plastic molecules are a human invention, never before existing, and will not decompose ever.
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See also the following Caldera Environment Centre posts on this issue:
“If this, …” and The Caldera Environment Centre ‘Ecological Arts For Information’ Merit Award
