Is it real green grass, or NewGrass? Consider a synthetic lawn.

Isthis an article or an advertisement?

What exactly do you mean by “leading manufacturer”?

How is New Grass a manufacturer? Is there a new grass factory somewhere?

And I love this recycling promise scenario- sounds great without examination.

All artificial grass is 100% recyclable theoretically. But no one recycles artificial grass currently. It’s extremely unlikely in my view that company that wholesales artificial grass to middlemen installers will be able to come and remove the grass 10 years later at no cost!

Let’s say you had to hire a crew of three guys to remove 1,000 sq. ft. of artificial grass and transport it to a recycling location.

You wold need to pay them at least $10.00 an hour, plus overhead, plus insurance, and gas, and equipment (truck, etc). Figure two four hours drive time from point of origin, to the customer, to the recycling yard, back to the point of origin, and two to three hours actual labor minimum. This assumes that recycling yards were anywhere near by these random locations. Let’s say this was achieved for something like $500.00 in todays dollars.

Since these lawns would pop up at random for recycling, it would be next to impossible to have crews stationed in any particular place- so if you farmed the work out, you’d add another middle man profit or cost to the prospect. You’d need administrative costs to run the program and market it.

So, all this on the original wholesale profit margin 10 - 15 years later with inflation- that’s a pretty amazing trick!

Advertisements should be identified as such- otherwise it really hurts the credibility of the journalistic source.

This site purports to be journalistic- so it is certainly fair game to ask these questions and expect answers!

Hi Anonymous,

Thank you for your concern. If fact, at NewGrass we have done the calculations and concluded that being able to recycle NewGrass at the end of its natural life is something that we can afford and that we feel we are obligated to do as a company. At NewGrass we are very eco-sensative. That is why we have a 100% recyclable product and do not use yarns like Nylon that are not recyclable.

We are the only artificial company that takes this extra step to be eco-friendly.

GetWithGreen content is not sponsored or written by manufacturers. Thank you. David (GetWithGreen.com)

If you are from Synlawn (and it sure appears that you are) then your anonymous attack on a competitor is a really distasteful way to do business.

Hmmmm,

These annonymous posts sure sound like they are a competitor that is fishing. He claims to be just a regular Joe but he has a lot of industry information such as costs from the manufacturer, profit margins, costs for labor. That certain goes towards his credibility.

If I were Trevor I certainly wouldn’t tell him trade secrets either! Its actually kind of ridiculous he is even asking for them!!

Synthetic grass is a great way to conserve on water, bills, and maintenance…and from what I know, there are many city governments that provide incentives on installing synthetic grass rather than the real deal to help with water conservation.

This ridiculous. How about a lawn, we all plant food forests that provide micro-ecosystems and keep us from having to buy food that was grown 1000s of miles away. Lawn is a horrible waste of water, yes; but to cover up beautiful soil with a synthetic material so you can maintain the American Nightmare of suburbia is just sick.