Rubber Mulch Safety - Playground Safety Surface. Impact Safety. Wheelchair Accessible. IPEMA Certified and EPA Tested. Rubber Mulch is safe for kids and pets. Environmentally friendly. Safety and Testing Information.

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Safety First - Rubber Mulch Safety Summary

Professional athletes compete on recycled rubber.
Children play on recycled rubber.

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.

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.

Impact Safety - IPEMA Certified
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).

EPA-Tested - Additional Environmental and Human Impact Studies
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.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently studied air and surface samples at four fields and playgrounds that use recycled tires – the same material that cushions the ground under the Obama family’s new play set at the White House. The limited study, conducted in August through October 2008, found that the concentrations of materials that made up tire crumb were below levels considered harmful. In addition, the overall study protocol and many of the methods were found to be appropriate and could be implemented in the field.
The details of the EPA’s study can be found at: www.epa.gov/nerl/features/tire_crumbs.html

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Safe for Kids and Pets (and you)
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

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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

Wheelchair Accessibility
Pinnacle Rubber Mulch is ADA-Qualified as a wheelchair accessible surface. See the wheelchair accessibility test results.