When a playground is being laid out, the most important concern is the flooring. However, with rubber mulch you can be assured about the safety of your kids. Most of the playgrounds these days choose rubber mulch because of the cushiony softness that it offers all around the year, especially during the winters.
Another advantage of using rubber mulch for playgrounds is that it has a high shock absorption capacity and even if your children fall from a height, you can be assured that they would not get hurt. Giving an artistic appearance to the playground these rubber mulches are easily available and are also easy to install on the playground surfaces.
Being non-toxic in nature your children can enjoy their time playing and you can also leave toddlers around where there is rubber mulch flooring. Another point to be considered is that the rubber mulch does not rot and hence there is no chance that your kids can gain a possible infection or allergy because of the rotting mulches.
Available in different colors,shapes and styles, the rubber mulch apart from increasing the safety of the playground can also give a good appearance to the area.
When children ask for permission to go outside to play, parents often fear for the safety of their kids outdoors. After all, a child coming home with a scraped knee and scratches all over is a heartbreaking sight no parent would ever wish to see.
It is thus a good thing that an increasing number of safe playgrounds are being built in our communities. It would immediately be noticeable that these playgrounds are quite similar in that they all employ the use of rubber mulch. (more…)
After a nice day in the sun, walking through the local park and sitting for awhile on a bench, I suddenly noticed how many people, were leaving and not picking up their rubbish.
At this point a friend came over to speak to me, we had the usual greeting, then he turned away from me and said, ‘ What do you think about all that, then mate ?‘
To which I replied, ‘Do you mean the empty cans, bottles and crisp packets and things, that have just been left, by your friends and you ?’
Earth Day was on the 22nd April 2008, and many countries extend the courtesy and have an Earth Week where the goal is to “broaden the environmental movement worldwide and to educate and mobilize people, governments, and corporations to take responsibility for a clean and healthy environment”. What better way of helping the environment then giving grants to schools and daycare centers to better their playground surfaces, promote playground safety and help the environment with rubber mulch.
Governor Steve Beshear from the state of Kentucky has done just that by announcing 43 crumb rubber grants (worth almost $1 million) to schools, daycare centers, churches around the state. He recognizes the fact that recycling rubber tires and using the rubber crumbs in playground is both environmentally friendly, economic and helps prevent accidents.
I don’t want to hear any excuses, you do have time to be environmentally friendly and here are 6 ways, you can be environmentally friendly today, as you prepare to go to work, and in the workplace too.
Make yourself some sandwiches to take to work. You will be helping the environment by not driving somewhere to buy your lunch, and also saving on the packaging that comes with shop bought lunches. (more…)
It is there because, obviously we don’t think that much of our environment, especially when it comes to our streets and neighborhoods. We end up paying the costs for our local authority to clean up the mess that has been made by us.
Think about everything you throw away. Can something else be done with it? Can it be recycled, or can someone else make good use of it?
So don’t throw away or simply burn old clothes, books, kid’s toys, or even furniture, but instead give them to your local charity shop instead. You will be helping other people and the environment too.
There is only so much that a parent can teach their child about the environment and being green. Once children reach school age, they become subject to the views of other authority figures like teachers, and the peer pressure from other children.
It’s all very well, that they take heed of your green advice at home, but first chance your child gets away from you, they do the complete opposite, like visit that fast food joint, which you have expressed your environmental concerns over.
A few changes in our daily lives can really make a difference to the environment and help save the world! Since the industrial revolution, we have invented some many things that make ours lives easier, but unfortunately not all these things are so good for the environment, things like plastic bags, disposable cups, and old discarded tires, to name a few.
Americans throw away something like 100 billion plastic bags a year. That’s just a drop in the ocean compared to the worldwide number – an estimated one trillion plastic bags a year. A maximum of 3% of this number is recycled.
Over the past few decades, some people had the bright idea to build artificial reefs with tires.Now when I first head this, I imagined little colorful rubber plants and rocks – what a great idea!
No, it didn’t mean this, well not in the case of Osborne Reef, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.In the 1970s, over 200 million tires were ‘reused’ and clipped together with steel clips and ceremoniously dumped in an effort to replicate a reef that game fish would inhabit.
When children ask for permission to 
After a nice day in the sun, walking through the local park and sitting for awhile on a bench, I suddenly noticed how many people, were leaving and not picking up their rubbish.
We all see litter and bigger kinds of rubbish (like tires) around where we live, yet we all have a 
Think about everything you throw away. Can something else be done with it? 
There is only so much that a parent can teach their child about the 
