Due to a massive improvement in manufacturing techniques and people becoming more and more aware of the long term environmental benefits artificial grass can offer, it is now becoming very popular and is being seen as a real alternative to natural grass. In the past Artificial Grass or Astro Turf was usually limited to sports and recreation centres, but with it now designed to feel and look so realistic, it is becoming so popular amongst the general public that you are just as likely to see it laid in your neighbours garden.
The first benefit being the changes it can make to your lifestyle and how easy it is to take care of. Mowing your lawn is one of the less glamorous jobs that we do on a regular basis during the summer months and can take up to 3 hours of your time depending on the size of your garden. In this day and age it seems that we all now live our lives at a hundred miles per hour and our own personal relaxation time has became a valuable commodity as we try to juggle our daily responsibilities, so you have to ask yourself the question, do you really want to be spending this time mowing and taking care of your lawn?
In recent years in the UK we've seen increased restrictions being put on water usage in the form of hose pipe bans. This is bad news for natural lawns. A natural lawn that isn't watered in hot weather can be permanently damaged in the space of days, this is one worry you don't have with artificial lawns. Meaning installing artificial grass actively helps the environment through substantially reducing the water usage per household.
Below we have listed a couple of other environmental benefits artificial grass has: