Many people don’t know that all the meters they have of artificial turf can actually be recycled, the reason is that most of the times people don’t know what they are made of, and after a few years, they don’t see the use to it. 

Luckily for us, and our planet, we can still recycle artificial turf. They are mostly made out of polypropylene, polyethylene, and nylon. All of those three materials are recyclable. 

The thing with those materials is that, even though they are totally recyclable, they still need to be carefully separated (just like many other plastic accessories, in fact). 

This separation wasn’t possible a few years ago, but many recycling centers are keeping up with how the industry is advancing, and they have developed technology that allows them to do this. 

Of course, this is not a cheap process, but more and more pressure is being put in companies to make them recycle more, so the days of tossing your old turf in the landfill are gone. 

Which, essentially, still makes artificial turf a sustainable option, is that you don’t need to lawn it nor water it, but now you can also send it to a recycling center and give it a second chance. And on top of it, it lasts more than 7 years, many more depending on the type of turf you choose. 

With used artificial turf new objects can be made, however, we can’t still make brand new artificial turf out of the old ones, but who knows, maybe in a near future you can give away the old artificial grass for recycling and in a few weeks have it back completely new. 

The recycling process basically consists on separating the materials, and then proceeding to the re-pelletizing process, which consists in cutting the plastics by type, cleaning them, melting them, and transform them into a huge number of different things.