TigerTurf Continues to Lead in Recycling and Carbon Emission Reduction

TigerTurf is on a mission to use recycled and recyclable products in its artificial turf systems where ever possible, to reduce the impact on the environment.

Artificial turf surfaces have a major advantage over natural grass for most sports. Irrigation is a key component in maintaining good quality natural grass, whereas, synthetic turf does not require irrigation in most situations.  This saves water and with no need to mow, there is less use of fossil fuels, and reduction of Co2 emissions. Artificial turf eliminates the need for pesticides and fertilizers.

The APE TigerPad is a shock and drainage pad installed under their synthetic turf and is manufactured from recycled polyethylene closed cell foam which is used extensively in the automotive industry, medical sector, building and construction, insulation and packaging industries and for sports and leisure products. The waste polyethylene is processed into durable, lightweight, non-abrasive, closed-cell foam pads that are not only flexible, strong and resilient, but also have high shock pad characteristics and are highly permeable. 

TigerTurf combines the pad with their synthetic turf systems to meet the Head Impact Criteria / Critical Fall Height / Soft Fall standards in their playgrounds and some multi-sports applications. This makes them the ideal product for under multi-sport courts and playgrounds. Their installation processes contributed to saving more than 3 million tons of Co2 in 2017.  In 2018 the APE manufacturer expects to save more than 4 million tons of co2.

TigerTurf Ecocept is a high-performance sports base layer made from 80-90% recycled plastic and rubber.  This product is the result of years of research by TigerTurf and TenCate Grass to find a solution to recycling end of life synthetic turf and other plastic waste.  TigerTurf’s goal is to be a net neutral producer of plastic waste.

The plastic used can be of any type; it does not need to be a particular grade or of a particular composition. The rubber used is from recycled tyres.  The synthetic turf, plastic waste and rubber tyres are re-processed into granules which are then mixed with a polyurethane binder and paved directly onto the sub-base much like an asphalt road. 

Synthetic turf from TigerTurf has a lot of positive environmental credentials. The company encourages customers to resell, donate and recycle parts of the turf where possible.

For more information on dog grass, synthetic grass, hockey turf, multi-sport synthetic grass and more, visit https://tigerturf.com/nz/