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As the clubs with the biggest stadiums look for alternative ways to make money, in the summer months football grounds are turned into music venues, with acts like Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Pink and Taylor Swift playing in front of tens of thousands of fans across the UK in recent years. In total, only about 3-5% of the playing surface of these top-tier pitches is synthetic. Importantly, they don't use rubber crumbs: tiny, polluting particles that can end up in the ocean.