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As the largest owner of artificial turf pitches in Norway, the city of Oslo is taking a step forward in making football even greener.
“In the Oslo Municipality we have decided that from now on, we will not use rubber granules in new and rehabilitated artificial grass pitches,” Sports Agency Rina Mariann Hansen (Ap) in Oslo Municipality told TV 2.
With its 91 artificial grass pitches filled with filler material containing loose plastic, the city administration has calculated the additional costs that it will cost to remove environmentally hazardous rubber granules and replace them with more environmentally friendly fillers: Almost
NOK 200 million.
– For the lanes that we are going to build this year, we have estimated an additional cost of NOK 2 million per lane. If we multiply the number of lanes with it, you will get the answer to how expensive it is: 100 lanes twice, says Hansen.
The price is an additional cost for the lanes that are being built or renovated.
NOK 3 billion for Norwegian football
After the summer, the EU is expected to ban rubber granules on artificial grass. Therefore, it is natural to believe that more people should take the same control as the municipality of Oslo.
In Norway, almost 1800 artificial grass pitches have been registered today, with 90 percent filling of rubber granules. Using the Oslo Municipality calculation, the cost of making them more environmentally friendly will be staggering three thousand millions.
“There are not as many doruls and waffles in Football Norway, so the state must contribute and contribute here,” American football president Terje Svendsen said when TV 2 Sport spoke to him in March.
After the crown eruption, however, Svendsen has been nuanced.
– We have to normalize the life of the club and the income image of Norwegian football before thinking about how we solve that challenge.
– Who will pay the bill when that time comes?
– We have received positive signs that the public must contribute by replacing artificial grass. So this is a matter to which we must return once we get past the knee, this pandemic is.
Get good options
One of football’s biggest challenges with a ban will be that today there is no good enough alternative to rubber granules. Namely, carved car covers have an effect on an artificial grass track that is close to natural grass.
Furthermore, rubber can withstand Norwegian weather well. But the rubber granules also have a backside; Microplastics, defined as plastic particles less than five millimeters, are a growing environmental problem. It can contribute to the spread of environmental toxins in the sea.
and nature, and plastic can be transported up the food chain.
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