D.C. Department of General Services Director Keith Anderson told WUSA9 Tuesday the District will now stop painting its rubber playground mats without first approving the chemicals used.

Black rubber mats designed to break a child ... reported seeing 16 to 18 young children with playground burns a year, mostly from the mats under junglegyms and sliding boards.

In a more common scenario, Reyhan Meharn, a New York mother, watched her son Kian suffer in a burn center for days after he stepped with bare feet onto a black rubber mat at a city playground.

The public playground in Bandon ... One study that analyzed rubber mulch and rubber mats, published in the scientific journal Chemosphere in 2013, concluded that “Uses of recycled rubber ...

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 ...

TULSA COUNTY, Okla. — I looked into a tip about playground material, recycled rubber, that’s floating in a nearby waterway at LaFortune Park in Tulsa County. Aaron Walton said he came to ...