Safety Down Under is available in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland.

Retail/ Home Owner sales. Safety Down Under is sold by local retailers in six different states.If your local garden center does not carry Safety Down Under playground safety surfacing, please have them call Safety Down Under.

Municipalities/Contractors/Garden Centers/ Churches/ Day Care etc…
Please Contact Safety Down Under at:
908-735-5790 or by email mail@SafetyDownUnder.com

Safety Down Under playground surfacing is made from the wood of the tree. Safety Down Under is 100% natural virgin wood. Safety Down Under safety surfacing meets ASTM and ADA standards.

Landscape mulch is made from bark, roots, leaves and/or recycled pallets and even demolition wood. Landscape mulch can contain poison ivy, rocks and other foreign materials that can be harmful to children in a playground environment.

Sand can be a health hazard due to animals using it as a litter box.

Material - Rubber mulch/tire mulch is made from recycled tires. Tires contain metal. This metal must be removed in the manufacturing process. Some recyclers/manufacturers of tire playground mulch have specifications that allow from 5% to 10% metal as part of their finished product.

• Safety Down Under is made from virgin wood and does not need to remove foreign or dangerous parts in its manufacturing process.
  

Looseness - Rubber mulch/tire mulch is loose and doesn’t compact very well. This leads to displacement of the rubber mulch/tire mulch. One major complaint is rubber mulch/tire mulch is carried away in the shoes of children, often ending up in washing machine.

“Rub Off ”- Some rubber mulch/tire mulch tends to “rub off” on clothing. Both “black” and “colorized” products have been reported to do this.

Cost & Cleaning - The cost of rubber mulch/tire mulch is 7 to 15 times the initial cost of Safety Down Under. Rubber mulch promotes itself as having a longer life cycle. Unfortunately, the longer a safety surfacing remains on a playground the more foreign materials collect in it. (i.e. metal, glass, paper waste, tree parts, twigs, leaves, nuts, …) Rubber mulch/tire mulch can not be easily raked of foreign materials. The raking process often embeds contaminants even deeper, due to the looseness of rubber/tire mulch.

Vandalism - Rubber mulch/ tire mulch is a petroleum-based product. Rubber mulch/tire mulch, when ignited with an accelerant, such as lighter fluid, tends burn with tremendous heat and flames. Rubber mulch/tire mulch continues to burn with tremendous heat and flames even after the accelerant is exhausted.

Child Safety - Candy Like - Rubber mulch/ tire mulch, especially when colorized, tends to resemble candy. This can be a health/choking hazard to children under the age of 3.