It can be both…doesn’t have to be all or nothing. The issue is 99% of suburbia is lawn, and only like 5% of it is used out of the year.
There is an egregious imbalance that needs remediation because the lawns are destroying ecosystems, pollinators and contributing to toxic runoff (rainwater isn’t absorbed by lawns due to their shallow roots). The rainwater pulls all the fertilizer & roundup into the storm water discharge and feeds it into rivers and lakes (hence the algal bloom that is overtaking many lakes in the US).
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It can be both…doesn’t have to be all or nothing. The issue is 99% of suburbia is lawn, and only like 5% of it is used out of the year.
There is an egregious imbalance that needs remediation because the lawns are destroying ecosystems, pollinators and contributing to toxic runoff (rainwater isn’t absorbed by lawns due to their shallow roots). The rainwater pulls all the fertilizer & roundup into the storm water discharge and feeds it into rivers and lakes (hence the algal bloom that is overtaking many lakes in the US).