After what seemed like an age, remediation work to restore grass to its original condition was under way a couple of weeks ago. Some of the work seemed unnecessary as the grass had re-grown quite nicely. Other areas definitely needed work.

Ground is taped off ready for the mulch / seed mix.

Not much remediation needed here but work was done regardless.

Yesterday, while out on a Raymore Park clean-up with members of the Sukyo Mahikari Church on Scarlett Road, we noticed that the mulch seed mixture was heavily contaminated with micro-plastic particles.

The mulch seed mixture as it was laid.

The mixture is contaminated with small plastic particles.

I’m not sure what level of such plastic is permitted (if any) but this is a danger to birds and other animals who no doubt have already scavenged through the mulch and ingested some of the particles. In hindsight, with this level of contamination, surely its preferable to allow nature to fill in the grass naturally than to contaminate the ground with easily ingestible pieces of plastic.

This looked like a contract job done under tender for the city. Remember the mantra that the private sector always does things better and cheaper?

This definitely wasn’t done better and I’ll bet it wasn’t cheaper either.