Laboratory Lehmacher | Schneider, located in the centre and working all over Europe, is a well-established product and field-testing laboratory. They test to EN, FIFA, FIH and German RAL standards. In 2020 the German Government decided to no longer fund synthetic turf projects with a polymeric infill pending the outcome of an EC-study in microplastic pollution from intentionally added microplastics. Laboratory Lehmacher | Schneider quickly realised that it would be only a matter of time before microplastic pollution from unintentionally added microplastics would be viewed as problematic too. They set up a study to investigate exactly how much influence the type and amount of infill used, has on the fibre. The results included in this article indicate that the fibre wear, as the main indicator of the durability of the synthetic turf surface, is strongly influenced by the type and amount of infill used.