They also should ban public takeovers for Capital Federal and State buildings. And they also should ban anyone with 34 counts felonies from holding any public offices. 🍊 😂
@@TK-mf5in Well a lot of felonies became misdemeanors overnight with Prop 47 and cops aren't arresting people for this crimes but instead citing them. And all the criminal we released due to Prop 47 and District Attorney's not prosecuting people when they do commit crimes. Pull your head out of the sand.
@@abcd123553 stealing or killing are some of the laws that should already be ingrained in ppls conscience. But there is more and humans are flawed so one would need to learn all the ways that are right.
They won't the reason for E.V.s was nothing more than a grift on the front end to build out infrastructure then when it scaled be able to track your car by GPS and impose a "mileage tax"
Does the government just work on a single issue at a time? Seems to me like they certainly could juggle multiple issues at once. I also don’t see how stopping cancer causing chemicals from leaching into our ground water is a “petty issue”
It was just a few short years ago that they were actually giving money to tear out your lawn and install artificial grass. You simply can't make this $hit up.
Govt incentives is a good business - you don't even need to convince people to spend the full amount of money and you have the governments propaganda dept (mainstream media) to hype it for free for you
So one should always stick with their first decision even if it turns out it wasn't the best idea? So new information and ramifications should never be considered?
NO they were not. To be clear, the city/state did NOT encourage this. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
@@gamera2020next year the fools will tell you that EV’s are FAR worse for the environment than Ice cars. Where is Cali going to dump the millions of batteries?
The theft man. They made bank off the sales theft for astroturf. Now they'll make bank on sales theft for real grass, tell you to keep it green, then when there's a drought they'll make bank again by issuing tickets for dried out grass. On top of which, they can claim all that dried grass is climate change at work, wild fires, etc etc.
Probably the same people, who were against paper bags and for plastic bags and not back to paper bags. By the way, same is likely with electric cars too.
Well, it's California, so whoever was going to make the most money from the decision probably made the decision. Much like big pharma, you just need to follow the money.
Why are you acting surprised. History has a constant cycle of this. Cocaine was given to Air Force pilots for years as an energy supplements then they said, oops, not a great idea. Lobotomies were a cure for people’s unnatural tendencies.. until they weren’t.
@destinyreturns4885 I went to school thru the 11 th grade so I learned the difference between their and they’re and that the bullet train to nowhere is going to-among other big big cities-the city you wrote your hit song”sin city “
@@destinyreturns4885 good point, Destiny. And we gladly spend a trillion a year on the military and another trillion on courts, cops and prisons. Last decade has seen the fastest growth of billionaires, corporations and Wall Street shares. Priorities?
Actually, the state is investing in a huge project for water infrastructure, the SITES reservoir. It's been very expensive, of course, as all water projects are.
@@destinyreturns4885 Actually, the train is going to connect northern to southern California, if the taxpayers continue to fund it. Take a look at China's train infrastructure and high speed rail compared to the US. They will bury us.
You may want to look up the word hypocrisy. To be clear, the city was not encouraging plastic lawns. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
I'm serious, what is it with ICE drivers against EVs? Makes no sense. EVs are almost 90% efficient compared to internal combustion engines (ICE) which are about 30% efficient. Making the electricity and transporting to EVs need to be considered but refining oil and transporting gas on trucks isn't more efficient in any ways. Yes, manufacturing requires an EV to be driven 3 years at 12,000 miles to catch up to the carbon footprint compared to making an ICE vehicle but after that, it is all a gain. I'm not going climate dude on this isn't the point and is debatable but ,just saying EVs are more efficient so what is the big deal with them? I do agree, government shouldn't ban ICE vehicles either but EVs are not the bad guys here.
@@baileym4708 ICE research and target is closing in on 50%. E-fuels are in the works as well. Power transmission accounts to ~10% losses. Charging another ~10% (hence the cooling requirement while charging). Modern EV engines are also just slightly above 90%.
If we keep taking out grass trees etc that actually cool down the areas we live we will need more power for ac etc and then be short on that, Arizona removed the plants grasses and trees surrounding their waterways and their water started evaporating twice as fast from higher temps, no shade etc
@@chancemathews7057thats what they're doing in Hawaii! So many large trees in my area have been cut down. In my small apartment area they cut down three shade providing trees. My room temp went to 94 when the afternoon sun hit the unprotected back wall. Now I have to use ac. Also, the new highrises that are lining the oceanfront, blocking wind flow, all have mirrors. And they keep talking about the rising temps due to global warming. Whatevah! 🙄🙄🙄
@@techshabby0001 yeah plants are good for the planet, they clean the air we breath, keep the outdoors cooler, keep our homes cooler etc. the high rises shouldn’t be built in places where it affects air flow, another natural way of cooling areas we live down, especially ocean breeze. I believe we shouldn’t be cutting down trees and removing plants unless we absolutely have to, like building a house or whatever, leave the trees alone, build the roads around them, deal with the maintenance of trimming the tree or allow them to grow like they have for millions of years and maintain themselves. It’s only going to get hotter. We need the shade, the clean air they create, and it’s proven people are happier around greenery, whether that’s on a farm or city’s with parks and tree lined streets. I live in Los Angeles and they just released a study on the greenery around the city, areas that have more greenery and trees have cooler temperatures on average, and the areas with less greenery have hotter temperatures. In the same city. Also the poorer areas tended to have less greenery than the wealthier areas. lol it just annoys me that ppl keep chopping down trees and removing green areas for dumb reasons.
@@chancemathews7057 right, like the old Joni Mitchell song says, They took all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum * And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot
Artificial turf is horrible for those of you who have never had to remove it. It leaves tons of micro plastics all over the ground and make their way to the drain. Plus you can’t really wash it if you have dogs or pets, you will never get the smell out.
I ride my bike near a solar farm and when I go by it, the temp jumps at least 20 degrees from reflecting the sun. I’m sure the heat caused by them is not helping “climate change”
Your body is certainly your own choice, but if your artificial lawn is dripping cancer into my cup of tea, that may be a concern for more people than just yourself. Also, Gav’y said, “not my choice, it’s the cities”.. so you’re kind of poking the wrong bear.
Gavin Newsome is the Governor or CA, not the mayor of Los Angeles. Maybe you should focus on your own state problems "AZ"joe. Like the fact you now have heatwaves so bad, they melt shoes and blister feet.
There is no lack of housing. The Dream Center has free room and board right in LA, plus free food, job training, and drug treatment programs. Saying there’s just “no housing” displays a lack of basic understanding of the homeless issue, coupled with an egotistical desire to pretend to care more than others do.
@@pcatful - I agree but the confusion was the state was interested in regulating this until now. I believe people are saying you (the state) were interested in this a priority topic yet xyz is happening is all.
Parts of Santa Monica run a pressure washer along their fake astro turf side walks.Drenched fake grass with a whiff of Dog&human urine just spell home charm*
Everywhere I go in California they hand you a plastic straw. Got a chocolate shake at Don Mackles today and they gave me a plastic straw. I thought they were banned in California?
When they started removing green areas and trees from shopping area parking lots, I thought what a horrible idea. It only heats up the area. Our cities are hotter because of this.
I remember in the late 60's early 70's they let the grass around all the County buildings and office's around Los Angeles go dead/brown instead of using all that water. Instead they sprayed them with a green dye that looked pretty good and seemed to last most of the summer. The fall rains would renew the grass and the whole cycle would start again next summer. It seemed to save them a lot of water and mowing during the summer.
To be clear for those who don't live here, this was not encouraged by the city. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
Smothering soil,insects and natural drainage with a blend of rubber&plastic, not so great ever! People did this as a lazy fix not because they gave a darn about what's good for the environment.
Wait. So something the government said was good & effective turns out to not only be pointless but also have negative unintended consequences? Whaaaaat????!!! Reminds me of the recycling “solution,” which has also turned out to be pointless, wasteful, and polluting.
And after everyone buys EVs they will say the amount of pollutants to produce electricity exceeds expectation. So we will restrict your electricity usage. Watch!
While I think homeowners should be free to do whatever they want in their home and there are more pressing issues to deal with, this is a step in the right direction. We don’t want those chemicals leaching out into our waterways.
I live in southern California and have seen hundreds of yards convert from natural grass to "California native" landscaping. Without exception, each of these yards looks like crap. It is possible to have a low-water landscape, but you need a very good landscape architect who really knows plants. But instead, people just hire day-laborers/gardeners to install the landscape. Succulents look nice for a year. But after 3 years, they look horrible and can't really be pruned to look good. Luckily, a few years ago, I knew the drought would end so I kept all my natural grass and other plants. My yard looks primo. And we have so much water, I take bubble baths every night!
Native plants are a lot of work. All of those fly-by-night "landscape" companies that popped up to take advantage of the turf rebate money put in miles of crushed stone and the minimum number of native plants. Now these yards are just a mass of weeds in gravel and three huge overgrown native plants. Ugh.
I'm so glad that LA is focusing on the most important issues the city faces. I can sleep better at night knowing that there will now be a ban on fake grass.
Priorities are not in order. You get no respect when you allow crime to destroy people’s livelihood and then you make laws about banning artificial turfs. People will only lose faith in the system and the government. These are changing times and politicians are seen as the dumbest there has ever been.
Motel I'm at just dug up all their nice healthy grass and put in artificial turf. It will save them weekly landscaping costs as well as maybe water costs but it's early days (they literally did it just a couple weeks ago) and it is already getting brown patches from dogs and other use and has to be watered to clean it I think. It looked nice for a minute. It's softer than old fashioned astroturf. How did they not know about the "forever chemicals" before the government approved the product to be put on the ground?
So artificial turf that needs no water uses as much water as natural grass that you have to water everyday? Don't you have to add fertilizer to natural grass? What about the pollution from the lawn motors that cut natural grass. The policy makes no sense.
Its about time. Sanity at last. Plastic grass?! PFAS?! Artificial grass always creeped me out. Real grass or plants improve air quality. Water and air are important. Wood chips and landscaping. There are super drought resistant strains of grass. Even patios of stone or cement mixed with wood chips and landscaping or drought resistant grass.
lol what the heck? I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags were the solution to saving trees. Last year I saw a commercial proclaiming paper bags as a solution to the plastic bag problem.
Why do they need to add more laws? Why can’t they just issue advisories based on the latest research. So much energy on non-sense bans that require more resources to enforce
So they can stop the sellers from selling in the area, and reduce the amount of money we have to pay to treat the water at the treatment plants so we can reuse it.
@@Rz-tt9zuthey increase the heat anywhere they put them- I love solar panels, but one side effect is the heat the produce. Go ahead and put your face in front of one at 1pm - That heat is changing the environment in the area of these huge solar farms
Maybe they can just ban the sale of anything with "forever chemicals" instead? I remember over a decade ago there was a huge push to put solar on peoples homes, rebates through electric companies, federal tax breaks, local breaks.... now "Oh no solar is too hard for us to work the electric grid, so now you have to pay more money by going to a time of use system which of course will have it's peak time frame when your solar doesn't do anything"
I am an old lady, and I know this is going to sound sexist. But here it is: How are we supposed to listen to and make sense of these reporters’ squawky, rapid-fire, high-pitched, gibberish voices? They just hurt my ears to listen to. I am so tired of these ‘35-something’ cute things in tight dresses, shrieking out the ‘news’. It is everywhere! Could we PLEASE have more maturity and gravitas?
We have artificial turf in front of our business. It was there when we moved in. The biggest problem is people letting their dogs take giant poops right by our front door, on the fake turf, which is then almost impossible to clean. I gave up on expecting the city to help since there’s equal amounts of poop on the sidewalks too. I’ve never heard of anyone ever being caught or fined for it so it’s basically a free-for-all and small businesses are the ones cleaning it up.
LOL Los Angeles has way too many politicians, shrink government. Ignore the census or just tell them one person lives there. Don’t donate to anything try and make all your purchases in Orange County or Ventura County or at least the more expensive items
I thought today’s synthetic turf was created to make better use of limited land for sports fields, safer playing surfaces for players ( if installed on a proper base), and the ability to be used virtually around the clock (if used with athletic lighting), in almost all weather conditions, without needing replacement for 10+ years. Synthetic turf does use less water than a natural grass field, even if you have to wet it down for temperature, and it does not require the use of pesticides like natural grass. However, was today’s synthetic turf ever really intended or studied for wide spread residential use? Recycling facilities for synthetic turf are limited and it is resulting in more plastics in our environment. Is a ban the only answer, or do we need additional research for ways to make synthetic turf more environmentally friendly and recyclable, especially for residential use?
Good questions. Since we will have to recycle water more and more, we have to be more cautious about what's in our runoff. California was just cut off from a bunch of Colorado River water, so it's going to be tough in the next drought.
Homeless people have been complaining that when they trespass on peoples property to shoot up and pass out, the artificial turf isn’t nearly as soft as natural grass so the city had to step in.
This is precisely why I don’t live my life around what these empty suits say. One minute it’s you should do this and the next minute okay now that’s banned so do something else. Too much overreach. Just like with hybrids. You should get hybrids, then everyone does it, and what does California do? Okay now we need to tax you per mile since people are buying less gasoline. After they told us to find a way to buy less gas by buying into hybrids. Now it’s we’re going to ban new gas car sales so buy an EV. Get ready for another ban.
Exactly- and the fools living there eat it up. The people like it. The people are so stupid they need the government to tell them how to live. The government knows this - and like you said- are banning the sale of ice cars- yet some people have no way of charging them- Example- older apartment buildings in LA- the current electrical system in those old buildings are not designed for 30 cars to be charged every night. Yet the people will still do as they are told and then be f’ed once they realize it’s 4 hours to charge the batteries. And California plans to raise the cost of electricity so high that the average family can’t even charge their car-
To be fair, they are trying to control the unintended results of technological change, and it's not easy. How do you pay for infrastructure for water and sewer when people are using much less of it and your revenues go way down? How do you reduce carbon but not destroy the jobs created by the auto industry? Every time I think about these issues I thank my lucky stars that all I have to do is work hard and keep my nose clean. I'd hate to be a politician.
@@willieverusethis what? People using less water and sewer? lol That’s not true. They liberals, don’t care about the jobs of the energy sector- they have proven that decades ago
Never understood how artificial turf is considered good, or any supplementary made out of plastics. Wanna save on water then don't plant anything or plant things that can withstand droughts.
Want to save on water? Yet the city encourages new illegal residents to move there- how many new illegals in the last 4 years? You think they are conserving water??
what theyre not telling you is that the same harmful chemicals are present in pretty much everything else you consume from food packaging, makeups, cookware etc.
The state of California has a state agency which works on recycling tires. This looks like a good project for them to develop a grass replacement using old tires. !
Plus, artificial turf is actually mainly made of plastic. As such, it's a source of microplastics which can enter the water courses and eventually, lakes and the sea. It's also almost impossible to recycle, eventually ending up in landfills.
Remember when they were telling everyone to get artificial turf?
That was way back in yesterday.
Just like electric cars
It's PLASTIC, like their FACES in Hollywood LMAO
Remember when we were smoking cigarettes on airplanes?
@@busterhikney6936 So we are allowed to do so again?.... Do I really have to explain this thread to you?
Let's also ban shoplifting and street takeovers.
Why? That's how I get all my shopping and entertainment 😂
They're all already banned. You can bet they will enforce this one though.
u would make a good mayor 😂😂👽😅
Exactly why they make laws for stupid things.
They also should ban public takeovers for Capital Federal and State buildings. And they also should ban anyone with 34 counts felonies from holding any public offices. 🍊 😂
Banning heinous crimes would be a better focus.
Those might already be banned
Name one that should be banned that isn’t, boomer.
@@TK-mf5in Well a lot of felonies became misdemeanors overnight with Prop 47 and cops aren't arresting people for this crimes but instead citing them. And all the criminal we released due to Prop 47 and District Attorney's not prosecuting people when they do commit crimes. Pull your head out of the sand.
Yeah but cancer sucks too
That is pretty much polution and destruction or water Ressources.
We should also ban stealing 😂😂😂😊
This would happen if ppl followed Gods word and obeyed his commandments.
@@jdos5643 You don't have to follow god's word to be a decent human being and not steal.
@@abcd123553 you need Gods word to learn morality and the good laws that save you. You don’t learn that in school.
@@abcd123553 stealing or killing are some of the laws that should already be ingrained in ppls conscience. But there is more and humans are flawed so one would need to learn all the ways that are right.
The powers-to-be should make stealing, looting, smash and grabs, and other crimes illegal.
Wait until they ban EVs…
They won't the reason for E.V.s was nothing more than a grift on the front end to build out infrastructure then when it scaled be able to track your car by GPS and impose a "mileage tax"
That’s funny you’re probably right.
@@weirdshibainuthis sounds so crazy that it may actually be true
Banning artificial turf but open drug use and going to the bathroom on the street is ok?
If you want to clean up the trash in the city we must start with this fake ugly grass. It is a crime to have to look at it.
@@chancemathews7057 I never thought of it that way, you got a point
Well, maybe they are thinking that if they ban turf then they can arrest the people who are peeing on it?
Yes it is. That's California for ya
Yes
Ban on artificial turf but meth clinics allowed. Make it make sense.
I agree whole heartardly. And ban the junkies from the streets. And watch how much better life would be!
It's California, so it makes sense for them.
I was open to trying what worked for Portugal but it clearly isn’t working here
I swear...we've got the most idiotic "leaders" in America. Perhaps ban crimes first instead of focusing on petty issues like this.
Do you really think that "crimes" are not banned?
Learn how to say what you mean.
Maybe you can't bc your brain is full of plastic chemicals.
Crime is banned - that’s why it’s called crime
@@gideoncone6024 then enforce them
If ppl followed Gods word and obeyed his commandments there wouldn’t be crime
Does the government just work on a single issue at a time? Seems to me like they certainly could juggle multiple issues at once.
I also don’t see how stopping cancer causing chemicals from leaching into our ground water is a “petty issue”
It was just a few short years ago that they were actually giving money to tear out your lawn and install artificial grass. You simply can't make this $hit up.
Govt incentives is a good business - you don't even need to convince people to spend the full amount of money and you have the governments propaganda dept (mainstream media) to hype it for free for you
So one should always stick with their first decision even if it turns out it wasn't the best idea? So new information and ramifications should never be considered?
NO they were not. To be clear, the city/state did NOT encourage this. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
@@gamera2020next year the fools will tell you that EV’s are FAR worse for the environment than Ice cars.
Where is Cali going to dump the millions of batteries?
No they didn't. They encouraged xeriscaping. You could not get the rebate for tearing out your lawn if you replaced it with artificial turf.
This is an outrage!!🤬🤬 First, they encouraged it, and now it dangerous. Who the F. did this study 🤬🤬
The theft man. They made bank off the sales theft for astroturf. Now they'll make bank on sales theft for real grass, tell you to keep it green, then when there's a drought they'll make bank again by issuing tickets for dried out grass. On top of which, they can claim all that dried grass is climate change at work, wild fires, etc etc.
Probably the same people, who were against paper bags and for plastic bags and not back to paper bags. By the way, same is likely with electric cars too.
Well, it's California, so whoever was going to make the most money from the decision probably made the decision.
Much like big pharma, you just need to follow the money.
Why are you acting surprised. History has a constant cycle of this.
Cocaine was given to Air Force pilots for years as an energy supplements then they said, oops, not a great idea.
Lobotomies were a cure for people’s unnatural tendencies.. until they weren’t.
AI
Yeah, good idea. Meanwhile, zero dollars for more water infrastructure. Reservoirs, wetlands, etc.
But their building a bullet train to nowhere. How's that for you?
@destinyreturns4885 I went to school thru the 11 th grade so I learned the difference between their and they’re and that the bullet train to nowhere is going to-among other big big cities-the city you wrote your hit song”sin city “
@@destinyreturns4885 good point, Destiny. And we gladly spend a trillion a year on the military and another trillion on courts, cops and prisons. Last decade has seen the fastest growth of billionaires, corporations and Wall Street shares.
Priorities?
Actually, the state is investing in a huge project for water infrastructure, the SITES reservoir. It's been very expensive, of course, as all water projects are.
@@destinyreturns4885 Actually, the train is going to connect northern to southern California, if the taxpayers continue to fund it. Take a look at China's train infrastructure and high speed rail compared to the US. They will bury us.
Let's ban people driving around with no license plates
Hey stop that
When will they ban pooping in the streets…?
Of course not... It's California 😂
Hypocrisy at its finest…
You may want to look up the word hypocrisy. To be clear, the city was not encouraging plastic lawns. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
@@gamera2020 always the same
The city encourages the stupidity of its people and you obviously are on board
@ g2020
They are worried the homeless will be put at risk camping on artificial turf.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 LOVE IT. YES THEY CERTAINLY ARE A PROTECTED SPECIES!
What about the stadiums?!
It’s plastic. It’s an environment disaster. Some turf contains toxic materials. It was a bad idea in the first place.
So they blaming toxic changing species different gender. Banning plastic won't stop the w●ke and lgbtqia2s+.
How about EV batteries that will be piling up soon?
Just tell people. They care far more than the political Karens who use green issues on behalf of corruption and tyranny.
@@jimib4835Stop, you are asking the right question.
@@jimib4835 There are already companies recycling them and making money. Good choice for stock purchase.
Are electric cars next? There are plenty of ignored or outright silenced voices about potential future issues.
I hope so!
Wouldn’t surprise me. They are losing gas tax due to people switching to EVs 😂
I'm serious, what is it with ICE drivers against EVs? Makes no sense. EVs are almost 90% efficient compared to internal combustion engines (ICE) which are about 30% efficient. Making the electricity and transporting to EVs need to be considered but refining oil and transporting gas on trucks isn't more efficient in any ways. Yes, manufacturing requires an EV to be driven 3 years at 12,000 miles to catch up to the carbon footprint compared to making an ICE vehicle but after that, it is all a gain.
I'm not going climate dude on this isn't the point and is debatable but ,just saying EVs are more efficient so what is the big deal with them? I do agree, government shouldn't ban ICE vehicles either but EVs are not the bad guys here.
@@baileym4708 ICE research and target is closing in on 50%. E-fuels are in the works as well. Power transmission accounts to ~10% losses. Charging another ~10% (hence the cooling requirement while charging). Modern EV engines are also just slightly above 90%.
Yes, that is the most pressing issue California needs to addresss. That's it, you all are geniuses.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
In terms of California, you got what you want. The state kicked it back to the cities. Not interested, more important things to do.
A plastic lawn could never be a good option.
If we keep taking out grass trees etc that actually cool down the areas we live we will need more power for ac etc and then be short on that, Arizona removed the plants grasses and trees surrounding their waterways and their water started evaporating twice as fast from higher temps, no shade etc
@@chancemathews7057thats what they're doing in Hawaii! So many large trees in my area have been cut down. In my small apartment area they cut down three shade providing trees. My room temp went to 94 when the afternoon sun hit the unprotected back wall.
Now I have to use ac.
Also, the new highrises that are lining the oceanfront, blocking wind flow, all have mirrors. And they keep talking about the rising temps due to global warming. Whatevah! 🙄🙄🙄
@@techshabby0001 yeah plants are good for the planet, they clean the air we breath, keep the outdoors cooler, keep our homes cooler etc. the high rises shouldn’t be built in places where it affects air flow, another natural way of cooling areas we live down, especially ocean breeze. I believe we shouldn’t be cutting down trees and removing plants unless we absolutely have to, like building a house or whatever, leave the trees alone, build the roads around them, deal with the maintenance of trimming the tree or allow them to grow like they have for millions of years and maintain themselves. It’s only going to get hotter. We need the shade, the clean air they create, and it’s proven people are happier around greenery, whether that’s on a farm or city’s with parks and tree lined streets. I live in Los Angeles and they just released a study on the greenery around the city, areas that have more greenery and trees have cooler temperatures on average, and the areas with less greenery have hotter temperatures. In the same city. Also the poorer areas tended to have less greenery than the wealthier areas. lol it just annoys me that ppl keep chopping down trees and removing green areas for dumb reasons.
@@chancemathews7057 right, like the old Joni Mitchell song says,
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum *
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Artificial turf is horrible for those of you who have never had to remove it. It leaves tons of micro plastics all over the ground and make their way to the drain. Plus you can’t really wash it if you have dogs or pets, you will never get the smell out.
Banned were those who said the same at the time when the non-sense was enthusiastically supported.
Too late Prop 64 toxic chemical everywhere in California and so is micro-plastic in the food and water 💧.
What are you doing out sniffing the grass.
Man you made me think of the inside house mats that shed plastic
I hate it, it doesn't stop shedding
try using lyme powder found at home improvement stores and feed stores. it gets rid of urine smells and is non toxic to pets.
Maybe the Govt. can stay out of our lives.
So many of these environmental 'fixes' turn out to do the opposite.
I'm expecting them to tell us solar panels cause cancer at some point.
Them Wind Turbine blades would, since those are FIBERGLASS lmao
These so-called leaders ARE the cancer of America.
No, no, no! Mining the toxic heavy metals needed to make solar panels is perfectly safe and ecologically sound!
Solar panels do. The light reflects off the roof, back to the sky, and people on airplanes are exposed. Take them off for the love of humanity.
I ride my bike near a solar farm and when I go by it, the temp jumps at least 20 degrees from reflecting the sun. I’m sure the heat caused by them is not helping “climate change”
My lawn, my body, my choice. Right Gavy?
Gavin's scalp gel has altered the function of his neurons and synapses.
Nope! Not when it ends up in our waterways.
Your body is certainly your own choice, but if your artificial lawn is dripping cancer into my cup of tea, that may be a concern for more people than just yourself.
Also, Gav’y said, “not my choice, it’s the cities”.. so you’re kind of poking the wrong bear.
Gavin Newsome is the Governor or CA, not the mayor of Los Angeles. Maybe you should focus on your own state problems "AZ"joe. Like the fact you now have heatwaves so bad, they melt shoes and blister feet.
@@gamera2020news flash - that’s was happening 200 years ago in Arizona-
Tool
*Ban Proposition-47 tent-dewlling drug-addicts? NO: Ban grass* 🤣👌
That woulf pretty much be a ban on homelessness.
Having housing would be simpler.
There is no lack of housing. The Dream Center has free room and board right in LA, plus free food, job training, and drug treatment programs. Saying there’s just “no housing” displays a lack of basic understanding of the homeless issue, coupled with an egotistical desire to pretend to care more than others do.
Ban Prop 47?😂 the American people voted to pass this measure. Did you voted to pass or not voted at all??? The consequences of not being informed.
Why do people confuse this with state priorities? The news article is exactly about how the State is not interested in regulating this.
@@pcatful - I agree but the confusion was the state was interested in regulating this until now. I believe people are saying you (the state) were interested in this a priority topic yet xyz is happening is all.
Nobody is watering their artificial turf. We need to ban city leaders from making dumb decisions.
Parts of Santa Monica run a pressure washer along their fake astro turf side walks.Drenched fake grass with a whiff of Dog&human urine just spell home charm*
People hose it off. You clearly don't live here.
It rains even in LA
How's the whole paper straw thing going?
Paper straw in a plastic wrapper. 🤣
Plastic lids
Everywhere I go in California they hand you a plastic straw. Got a chocolate shake at Don Mackles today and they gave me a plastic straw. I thought they were banned in California?
Ban Gavin?
Ban Comma La
California needs more trees 🌳,a lot of them and native plants
When they started removing green areas and trees from shopping area parking lots, I thought what a horrible idea. It only heats up the area. Our cities are hotter because of this.
As a professional landscaper.. I won’t install it. Anybody that will come you you and cover the earth in plastic in 2024 is way off base.
I remember in the late 60's early 70's they let the grass around all the County buildings and office's around Los Angeles go dead/brown instead of using all that water. Instead they sprayed them with a green dye that looked pretty good and seemed to last most of the summer. The fall rains would renew the grass and the whole cycle would start again next summer. It seemed to save them a lot of water and mowing during the summer.
To be clear for those who don't live here, this was not encouraged by the city. The city paid people to remove lawn due to extreme drought, but "they" encouraged xiroscaping with native and drought tolerant plants, not plastic.
Did the discourage the 3 million new residents that don’t give a f about conserving water?
I think its tacky anyway
It was tacky but oh so virtuous........ now not so much
Smothering soil,insects and natural drainage with a blend of rubber&plastic, not so great ever! People did this as a lazy fix not because they gave a darn about what's good for the environment.
How about focusing on crime more?
Wait. So something the government said was good & effective turns out to not only be pointless but also have negative unintended consequences? Whaaaaat????!!!
Reminds me of the recycling “solution,” which has also turned out to be pointless, wasteful, and polluting.
If we ban "OFFICIALS", it will be good for the environment, as well as our health and sanity!
🤪😜🤣
And after everyone buys EVs they will say the amount of pollutants to produce electricity exceeds expectation. So we will restrict your electricity usage. Watch!
While I think homeowners should be free to do whatever they want in their home and there are more pressing issues to deal with, this is a step in the right direction. We don’t want those chemicals leaching out into our waterways.
Especially if we are going to have to recycle it and drink it.
Soon the government will tell you when you can or cannot go to the bathroom.
Ban politicians
Illegal immigrant job preservation initiative.
Who would have thought pulling up grass and replacing it with plastic was a bad idea?
I live in southern California and have seen hundreds of yards convert from natural grass to "California native" landscaping. Without exception, each of these yards looks like crap. It is possible to have a low-water landscape, but you need a very good landscape architect who really knows plants. But instead, people just hire day-laborers/gardeners to install the landscape. Succulents look nice for a year. But after 3 years, they look horrible and can't really be pruned to look good. Luckily, a few years ago, I knew the drought would end so I kept all my natural grass and other plants. My yard looks primo. And we have so much water, I take bubble baths every night!
Native plants are a lot of work. All of those fly-by-night "landscape" companies that popped up to take advantage of the turf rebate money put in miles of crushed stone and the minimum number of native plants. Now these yards are just a mass of weeds in gravel and three huge overgrown native plants. Ugh.
You can’t make this stuff up. 😂 What a joke our state is. 🤦♂️
Those forever chemicals in turf do cause cancer
Leave it to liberals
LA and California has become a cartoon.
Has?
That happened at least 45 years ago
@@DaveEPie It's called the English language. Look into it.
They won’t let you water your grass and now won’t let you have turf.
NGL always thought artificial grass looks ugly n tacky .
Breathing is getting banned also
I keep at least one state between me and California at all times....I hear crazee can jump a long way
The gov't is out of control, from the top to your local appointed bureaucrat.
I love that people were still watering the turf! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
California is a special kind of special!
I'm so glad that LA is focusing on the most important issues the city faces. I can sleep better at night knowing that there will now be a ban on fake grass.
Priorities are not in order. You get no respect when you allow crime to destroy people’s livelihood and then you make laws about banning artificial turfs. People will only lose faith in the system and the government. These are changing times and politicians are seen as the dumbest there has ever been.
Motel I'm at just dug up all their nice healthy grass and put in artificial turf. It will save them weekly landscaping costs as well as maybe water costs but it's early days (they literally did it just a couple weeks ago) and it is already getting brown patches from dogs and other use and has to be watered to clean it I think. It looked nice for a minute. It's softer than old fashioned astroturf. How did they not know about the "forever chemicals" before the government approved the product to be put on the ground?
Banning illegal border crossings would be better as well
So artificial turf that needs no water uses as much water as natural grass that you have to water everyday? Don't you have to add fertilizer to natural grass? What about the pollution from the lawn motors that cut natural grass. The policy makes no sense.
They did their calculations on the amount of water conserved and decided it was opposed to their agenda.
They probably lost water tax 💀
@@Isaac-ev3nq 100% = they are not on our side.
What will they tell the NFL? LMAO
Its about time. Sanity at last. Plastic grass?! PFAS?! Artificial grass always creeped me out. Real grass or plants improve air quality. Water and air are important. Wood chips and landscaping. There are super drought resistant strains of grass. Even patios of stone or cement mixed with wood chips and landscaping or drought resistant grass.
lol what the heck?
I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags were the solution to saving trees.
Last year I saw a commercial proclaiming paper bags as a solution to the plastic bag problem.
Cloth bags solve both problems.
Omg😂😂😂 they should ban the governor
Why do they need to add more laws? Why can’t they just issue advisories based on the latest research. So much energy on non-sense bans that require more resources to enforce
So they can stop the sellers from selling in the area, and reduce the amount of money we have to pay to treat the water at the treatment plants so we can reuse it.
Cheaper way would be LA to make the homelessness artificial turf?
How about a ban on Newsom
Anyone still left in Cali is someone that wants the government to tell them what to do-
It’s that simple.
Nobody’s business how I keep my yard. This is still America, isn’t it?
nope 😢
Can we ban electric cars and solar panels
What’s wrong with solar panels?
@@Rz-tt9zuthey increase the heat anywhere they put them- I love solar panels, but one side effect is the heat the produce.
Go ahead and put your face in front of one at 1pm -
That heat is changing the environment in the area of these huge solar farms
@@DaveEPie I did not know that, great info
They’ll be working on that next, since they will be losing gas tax and electricity tax otherwise
Maybe they can just ban the sale of anything with "forever chemicals" instead? I remember over a decade ago there was a huge push to put solar on peoples homes, rebates through electric companies, federal tax breaks, local breaks.... now "Oh no solar is too hard for us to work the electric grid, so now you have to pay more money by going to a time of use system which of course will have it's peak time frame when your solar doesn't do anything"
How about ban foods known for additives causing same first
*next, they gonna say replace your lawn with rocks and then they are going to ban rocks on your lawn citing environmental damage.* 😂
Just another Democrat contrived bull$hit problem…
I am an old lady, and I know this is going to sound sexist. But here it is: How are we supposed to listen to and make sense of these reporters’ squawky, rapid-fire, high-pitched, gibberish voices? They just hurt my ears to listen to. I am so tired of these ‘35-something’ cute things in tight dresses, shrieking out the ‘news’. It is everywhere! Could we PLEASE have more maturity and gravitas?
Artificial turf lawn purchases is still tax deductible in CA.
Commiefornia for ya
The answer is DONALD J TRUMP 2024
California is most definitely a special place. Like short bus special. What an embarrassment to the republic.
I swear to God, there is not a politician in California with common sense. Doesn’t look like there’s enough voters with it either.
Governor Newsom will ban anything 😂🤡
We have artificial turf in front of our business. It was there when we moved in. The biggest problem is people letting their dogs take giant poops right by our front door, on the fake turf, which is then almost impossible to clean. I gave up on expecting the city to help since there’s equal amounts of poop on the sidewalks too. I’ve never heard of anyone ever being caught or fined for it so it’s basically a free-for-all and small businesses are the ones cleaning it up.
Put in security cameras, name and shame.
Yeah and then when you have to raise prices to either replace the turf or have ti cleaned...you're accused of "greed"
LOL Los Angeles has way too many politicians, shrink government. Ignore the census or just tell them one person lives there. Don’t donate to anything try and make all your purchases in Orange County or Ventura County or at least the more expensive items
I thought today’s synthetic turf was created to make better use of limited land for sports fields, safer playing surfaces for players ( if installed on a proper base), and the ability to be used virtually around the clock (if used with athletic lighting), in almost all weather conditions, without needing replacement for 10+ years. Synthetic turf does use less water than a natural grass field, even if you have to wet it down for temperature, and it does not require the use of pesticides like natural grass. However, was today’s synthetic turf ever really intended or studied for wide spread residential use? Recycling facilities for synthetic turf are limited and it is resulting in more plastics in our environment. Is a ban the only answer, or do we need additional research for ways to make synthetic turf more environmentally friendly and recyclable, especially for residential use?
Good questions. Since we will have to recycle water more and more, we have to be more cautious about what's in our runoff. California was just cut off from a bunch of Colorado River water, so it's going to be tough in the next drought.
Homeless people have been complaining that when they trespass on peoples property to shoot up and pass out, the artificial turf isn’t nearly as soft as natural grass so the city had to step in.
All i want is to get rid of the bums invasion and for more people to leave traffic is horrible
domestic terrorism, illegal immigration and organized shop theft is just fine though.
My neighbor had to remove and replace their plastic lawn twice because his gardening crew actually mowed it. Yukyuk
This is precisely why I don’t live my life around what these empty suits say. One minute it’s you should do this and the next minute okay now that’s banned so do something else. Too much overreach. Just like with hybrids. You should get hybrids, then everyone does it, and what does California do? Okay now we need to tax you per mile since people are buying less gasoline. After they told us to find a way to buy less gas by buying into hybrids. Now it’s we’re going to ban new gas car sales so buy an EV. Get ready for another ban.
Exactly- and the fools living there eat it up.
The people like it. The people are so stupid they need the government to tell them how to live. The government knows this - and like you said- are banning the sale of ice cars- yet some people have no way of charging them-
Example- older apartment buildings in LA- the current electrical system in those old buildings are not designed for 30 cars to be charged every night.
Yet the people will still do as they are told and then be f’ed once they realize it’s 4 hours to charge the batteries.
And California plans to raise the cost of electricity so high that the average family can’t even charge their car-
To be fair, they are trying to control the unintended results of technological change, and it's not easy. How do you pay for infrastructure for water and sewer when people are using much less of it and your revenues go way down? How do you reduce carbon but not destroy the jobs created by the auto industry? Every time I think about these issues I thank my lucky stars that all I have to do is work hard and keep my nose clean. I'd hate to be a politician.
@@willieverusethis what?
People using less water and sewer? lol
That’s not true.
They liberals, don’t care about the jobs of the energy sector- they have proven that decades ago
Never understood how artificial turf is considered good, or any supplementary made out of plastics. Wanna save on water then don't plant anything or plant things that can withstand droughts.
Want to save on water? Yet the city encourages new illegal residents to move there- how many new illegals in the last 4 years?
You think they are conserving water??
what theyre not telling you is that the same harmful chemicals are present in pretty much everything else you consume from food packaging, makeups, cookware etc.
I got rid of my lawn and put in native plants many years ago. They look good and don't need to be watered even in drought conditions.
Captain Obvious actually predicted this when they were shoving it down everyone's throats
The state of California has a state agency which works on recycling tires. This looks like a good project for them to develop a grass replacement using old tires.
!
CA would ban oxygen if it could
Plus, artificial turf is actually mainly made of plastic. As such, it's a source of microplastics which can enter the water courses and eventually, lakes and the sea. It's also almost impossible to recycle, eventually ending up in landfills.
It also gets hotter than hell in direct sunlight creating a large heat sink just like an asphalt parking lot
A ban of artificial turf, even if it's environmentally friendly, seems ironic ?
It's not.
@@willieverusethis Whats not ? More than two words usually helps understanding something.🤣
The purpose of government is not to tell people what kind of lawn or fake lawn they can have in front of their house.
The Banning fools should themselves be banned