Since lawns are bad for the environment, what do you think lawns should be replaced with?

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It doesn’t last forever though - it breaks down, and gets mold. I cannot understand it at all. What a mess. Like landscape fabric. Something to enjoy for a year and regret for ten years afterwards as it breaks down and you keep finding bits of it.

    Even in places that aren’t as humid and alive as our subtropical steam room here, under ideal conditions maybe 10 year life on that plastic carpet of grass. All the time it’s shedding plastic into the world.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Really? There’s one yard near me that I’m pretty sure got put in when a was a kid. Although Canada’s definitely not a subtropical steam room, and I doubt it’s walked over much.