Want to have a grass driveway but don’t want to be seen as just some yaboo who parks on their lawn? Well now you can!

The Golpa system, invented in Germany using recycled plastic, costs about $10 per square foot, or five times as much as a paved asphalt driveway. However, as written in the Toronto Star, it doesn’t have to be resealed or repaved, is more aesthetically pleasing and easier on the environment (no groundwater runoff) than pavement. It takes the same type of maintenance that a lawn requires.

Underneath the seemingly ordinary patch of lawn are a series of interlocking, hectagonal-shaped moulded plastic cells in which grass has been planted. The cells protect the roots from being crushed by the weight of a vehicle and allow water to flow through into the ground. The system has a load-bearing capacity of 100 tons per square metre.

No paving or resealing again!

And for occasional parking, this is an option too.