ugh..yeah ive seen it, and I think its hidious and repulsive..
yes, is supposed to be all "environment friendly" because its "recycled rubber"..big deal.
its also very environment UNfriendly because it sits in your yard forever and never breaks down! you might as throw garbage all over your yard..
just use REAL mulch..made from shredded up tree bits..
its natural, its "recycled", and it will break down and nourish the soil..
why anyone would want to install shredded rubber tire bits into their garden is incompressible to me..
IMO, its just another example of the environmenalist movement out of control..
someone realized they could make money by manipulating stupid people..
"hey..we have these billions of used tires every year..we can only recycle so much..how can we make more money from this junk?
I know..lets shread it up, slap the word "recycled" on it, which will fool morons into buying it, and we can make lots of money selling trash!"
and the irony is, its actually terribly environment UN friendly! its rubber! it wont biodegrade!
its BAD for the soil!
yeah, maybe its inert (maybe)..and maybe it wont do any real harm..
but I still wouldnt want pieces of rubber in my garden..
its certaintly not GOOD for your yard, like real mulch would be..
it adds nothing, and eventually someone is going to have to pick out those thousands of little pieces of garbage in the garden..
seriously..its like throwing trash in your garden...it IS throwing trash in your garden..
rubber can be recycled for MUCH better uses that that..such as making new actual useful products..
its a total scam..
if I was buying a house, and the sellers had this rubber mulch all over, it would be enough to make me not consider buying the house..
just because of the hassle of removing all the trash they spread all over..
(my wife and I are big into gardening..)
Scot