Effective rainwater treatment intercepts microplastics from artificial turf

Precipitation and surface water flush out microplastics from artificial turf pitches. This is a challenge that Hauraton is overcoming with responsible environmental technology. The drainage specialist based in the Baden region has a safe and effective solution for filtering and retaining microplastic particles. In the Sportfix®Clean drainage system and channel filter with filter substrate Carbotec 60, particles as small as 0.45 µm (0.00045 mm) are reliably removed by filtering.

With sports fields being equipped increasingly with artificial turf worldwide, this is highly relevant. Synthetic surfaces are very robust, require much less maintenance than natural turf and provide a high standard of safety for athletes. On modern surfaces, such playing properties as ball roll behaviour are very close to those of natural turf sports pitches. The benefits of artificial turf also include a long useful life of around 1,700 hours per year compared to 400 to 800 hours for natural turf, a service life of at least ten years and greatly reduced maintenance effort.