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Safer Playgrounds - Impact Safety
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has endorsed the use of recycled rubber to cushion the surfaces of children’s playgrounds. For more information, visit www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/cpg/products/playgrnd.htm.
As playground safety surfacing, a 6-inch layer of Pinnacle Rubber Mulch will cushion a child’s fall from as high as 16 feet. With more than 200,000 children injured each year as a result of playground falls (as reported by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Council), safety surfacing is the most vital component of playground construction. Pinnacle Rubber Mulch has been certified for ASTM-F1292 by the International Play Equipment Manufacturers Association (IPEMA).
Read the IPEMA Safety Summary about the use of Recycled Rubber in Playground Surfaces.
Environmentally Safe for Kids and Pets (and you)
Across the nation, discarded rubber tires are being recycled and reused in innovative ways that promote safety and represent ingenuity. In as many as 100 studies in state after state, researchers have reached the same conclusion...
Recycled rubber poses no significant health or environmental risk.
In fact, rubber mulch is a superior choice for safety surfacing compared with traditional wood mulch, and it affords ADA-Qualified wheelchair accessibility. Plus, recycling old tires into useful, safe products prevents hundreds of thousands of scrap tires from littering landfills and the countryside.
Read our Child Safety White Paper
Pinnacle Rubber Mulch is nontoxic and non-staining – the color will not rub off on children or pets, even in the rain. Rubber mulch is clean, minimizes airborne dust and particles, and will not result in painful splinters like wood mulch.
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California Environmental Protection Agency tested skin sensitization by playground surfaces made of recycled tires and found no sensitization observed suggesting that these surfaces would not cause skin sensitization in children, nor would they be expected to elicit skin reaction in children already sensitized to latex.
Study dated January 2007 can be viewed at: www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/Tires/62206013.pdf
ChemRisk, Inc. in Pittsburgh conducted a review of exposure to recycled tire rubber found on playgrounds and synthetic turf fields. They concluded that no adverse human health or ecological health effects are likely to result from these beneficial reuses of tire materials.
Study dated July 17, 2008. Detailed information and more studies can be found at:
www.syntheticturfcouncil.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=91
Highlights
- Recycled rubber poses no significant health or environmental risk.
- EPA and Environmental Testing - View the testing results and information from the EPA and other Organizations
- The Safest Surface - Rubber Mulch is a superior safety surface, protecting your kids from falls as high as 16 feet
- IPEMA Certified - Verify the IPEMA Testing and Certification documents
- Wheelchair Access - Pinnacle Rubber Mulch is fully wheelchair accessible
- Non-Toxic and Non-Staining - the color will not rub off on children or pets, even in the rain.
