Clippings

Call for ban on artificial grass

Pressure is growing for a ban on artificial lawns, hedges and plants after former BBC Countryfile presenter, Julia Bradbury, took to social media after spotting “horrible” plastic hedging outside a new development near her home in London. “We’re in a plastic pollution crisis – we need to get smarter than this,” she told GW. “We need buildings and infrastructure but we also need nature.”

“Pollinators simply cannot survive in a plastic environment”

Last year, over 11,000 people signed a petition calling for a ban on the sale of artificial grass as “environmentally irresponsible”. Nonetheless, demand for artificial lawns has skyrocketed during lockdown with some companies reporting sales