While many people use wood chips and mulch for practical purposes, others use them for pure aesthetics. Wood chips are widely thought of as attractive in terms of appearance, and they are typically ...

That’s because the city adds mulch to the playgrounds annually, and replaces it every three years. The rubber mulch is supposed to be maintenance free for up to five years, Hecker said.

This park in Sydney suburb Chippendale is one of the sites affected In January, an Australian child innocently brought home a couple of handfuls of garden mulch from near a playground in Sydney's ...