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A playground surface is the material that lies under and around swings, slides, monkey bars and other playground equipment. The surfaces are usually made of wood or rubber and designed specifically for aesthetics, child safety, and/or ADA wheelchair accessibility. Playground safety surfacing often involves the use of recycled rubber tire ...
It is used as safety surfacing under playground play equipment (designed to help lessen fall injury). [17] (see Playground surfacing.) Production of synthetic rubber in the 2010s exceeded 10 million tonnes annually and was over 15 million tonnes in each of 2017, 2018, and 2019 and only slightly less in 2020. [18]
Options for surfacing the ground around a playset include sand, pea gravel, wood chips, shredded rubber, and asphalt. The perimeter of the play yard is often made from concrete or wood. The depth of the surfacing on the play area should be based on a CPSC recommendations for the type of surface materials and maximum possible fall height, for ...
Playworld also provides equipment for the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation’s Healthy Playground Makeover Sweepstakes each year. [ 12 ] In 2012, Playworld donated $50,000 of playground equipment to Detroit in honor of Joshua Smith, a young boy concerned with the city’s financial crisis.
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Athletes did not like playing on these fields because of the risk of injury due to the hard surface. A new artificial turf system was developed in the early 2000s based on "crumb rubber." The black crumbs are small pieces of styrene-butadiene rubber made from grinding up old vehicle tires. The tire crumbs are poured in between the artificial ...
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