[justworkout]

The first paragraph of the article is about doing this to harvest flowers for economic reasons, so a significant amount of the nutrients are being removed from the waterways and wrapped in plastic to be sold. (unfortunately, this experiment was also done on top of beds of floating plastic)

Hopefully someday we can move beyond the desire for grass lawns, since that's where a lot of this waste is coming from.

[verve_rat]

> Hopefully someday we can move beyond the desire for grass lawns, since that's where a lot of this waste is coming from.

Do you have a source for that?

As someone that is farm adjacent (not just physically) my intuition tells me that run off from lawns would be a rounding error compared to agricultural and horticultural run off.

[justworkout]

The article that's being discussed.

I feel like I'm the only person here who read it.

[ttyprintk]

In most states, lawn is the biggest crop.

[Cthulhu_]

So it's more that the nitrogen etc is moved elsewhere. Distribution is probably for the best I suppose.

Also, plenty of florists use paper wrappers, there's no particular reason to prefer plastic.

[stephen_g]

If you have your own compost system then it can help your own garden. Or alternatively hopefully your council has a green waste collection and it can go there.