Is artificial grass actually eco-friendly?

It’s a trade-off, and anyone who tells you otherwise, in either direction, is skipping half the ledger. On the savings side: a converted lawn stops consuming 30–50 gallons of water per square foot per year, stops receiving fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide, and retires the gas mower. Over a 16-year product life on a typical lawn, that’s hundreds of thousands of gallons and a long list of chemicals that never enter the ground.

On the cost side: turf is a manufactured product with a real production footprint, and end-of-life disposal is still an industry work-in-progress (recycling programs are expanding). The industry is improving: PFAS-free products like ours are now the standard to demand. For most homes in water-stressed regions, the ledger lands clearly positive; our sustainability page walks the full accounting.

Keep reading.

• The full sustainability accounting
• Your water savings, calculated
• Water conservation guide