It’s bouncy and may remind you to change your snow tires. It also may be the newest feature at parks across the city. Lawrence Parks and Recreation crews recently installed chopped-up rubber tires ...

Monkey bars and hot metal slides have virtually disappeared. They've been replaced by colorful plastic castles with guardrails and ramps and rounded edges. And instead of blacktop and concrete, many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recycled tire materials like rubber mulch have been used in playgrounds across the U.S. for decades to cushion falls. But ...

SEA CLIFF, Long Island (WABC) -- It's a common sight on playgrounds across the Tri-State area: rubber pellets and mulch, meant to keep children safe. But could the material actually be harmful? One ...

"Rubber mulch does not provide any benefits to soil or plants," says Shelby Cassano at Nature's Way Resources. "The USDA Agricultural Research Service, after over 20 years of research, concludes that ...

After more than 90 minutes of discussion and a litany of amendments, the Duluth School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to replace rubber playground mulch with wood chips, but put off a decision ...

A group of Duluth parents made their case for replacing the rubber mulch at the Duluth school district's playgrounds with wood fiber after they became concerned about chemicals in the rubber. Duluth ...

LORAIN — The rubber mulch used at every playground in the Lorain City Schools system may be soft for a fall, but it also creates a hard to control blaze when ignited, investigators found. While ...

Rubber playground surface material may protect kids from some injuries but be harboring a different source of harm, a study in Boston suggests. Researchers tested lead levels in the soil, sand, mulch ...