Plastic or natural

Plastic grass or natural? It's the dilemma the ACT is wrestling with as bans on plastic spread.

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00:00If you go around the new estates in Canberra it's pretty well artificial grass, plastic grass

00:06and then real grass every other pretty well. So artificial grass clearly has some kind of

00:13cost advantage. That advantage comes after the thing is laid if you can call it being laid

00:20because really it's just rolled out. No mowing, no weeds, no water. So there may be a law of

00:30unintended consequences working. As people think of the environment they think natural grass,

00:38real grass must be better for the environment. But you have to weigh up things like water use.

00:44It is not a simple calculation.

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