Synthetic Turf and Health issues
Many who build dog runs take the lead from playgrounds and simply cover runs for dogs with the same chips because of porosity. Lots of playgrounds for children utilize woodchips or pea gravel as a ground cover, with the thinking that it is safe for disease control, and HIC (Head Injury Component) values, when in reality it is adequate for neither.
Most take the old adage “out of sight - out of mind”. Below the surface of wood chips lurks infectious bacteria, quite at home in rotting wood chips that have to be replaced yearly. Even Pea gravel, that stays moist, is a suitable home for microorganisms.
The more prevalent surface of natural grass and patches or worn dirt are the areas known by Veterinarians and professional kennel owners to be sites were people can pick up organisms through their feet, by walking through areas of defecation that have not been sanitized. The end result is dealing with conditions like <Leptospirosis> and <Toxicaria>
TargaPro’s<Synthetic Dog Run Turf> solves the problem of infectious disease through two avenues.
With a <synthetic turf> as a rule is very easy to do pick up after your pet and a simple garden hose can rinse off any area that begins to foster an odor. For more active, multiuse areas, we have an infilled turf that includes an Anti-Microbial Infill (AMI), called<Organite™>, that kills organisms on the molecular level.