{"id":330,"date":"2022-08-31T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/ecobuzz\/?p=330"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:35:24","slug":"une-club-tennis-team-goes-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/2022\/08\/31\/une-club-tennis-team-goes-green\/","title":{"rendered":"UNE Club Tennis Team Goes Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you look into the woods past the tennis courts at UNE, you may have noticed it looks a bit like a tennis ball graveyard. Tennis balls end up there either by accident when someone hits the ball too far, or if a ball is \u201cdead\u201d and too worn out to be used anymore.&nbsp; The fact of the matter is, tennis is a wasteful sport: with each match played, a new tennis ball container has to be opened.&nbsp; As a result millions of tennis balls end up in landfills or incinerators every year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One UNE student, Olivia Lauricella, recognized there must be an alternative to having a tennis ball graveyard. Tennis balls themselves can\u2019t be put in the on-campus, single-sort recycling, however a non-profit organization, recycleballs.org, has found a solution. They will take used tennis balls and put them to good use, shredding them to use in horse arenas, tennis courts, or sending them off to dog owners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tennis team agreed it would be a great idea to collect tennis balls to send to this organization. During practice this spring, a couple of team members went on an \u201cegg hunt\u201d in the woods to collect tennis balls.&nbsp; While periodic collection will be needed to gather wayward balls, \u201cdead\u201d balls have been given a good home. UNE\u2019s Sustainability Office invested in an outdoor tennis ball bin, which can hold up to 200 balls. After at least 100 balls have been collected, they will be shipped out to be recycled. This program is just one more step in the right direction to creating a more sustainable campus.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/ecobuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/IMG_4833-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342\" width=\"407\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/IMG_4833-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/IMG_4833-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><figcaption>UNE Student Olivia Lauricella (left) with the &#8220;Recycleballs&#8221; kiosk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/ecobuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Players-in-Woods.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-334\" width=\"494\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Players-in-Woods.jpg 737w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Players-in-Woods-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><figcaption>UNE Club Tennis team members collecting used tennis balls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/ecobuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Dirty-Balls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" width=\"332\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Dirty-Balls.jpg 644w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/environmentaladvisor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/07\/Dirty-Balls-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><figcaption>Box of old tennis balls collected from the woods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>by Olivia Lauricella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look into the woods past the tennis courts at UNE, you may have noticed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6,31],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eco-buzz-blog","tag-recycling","tag-waste-removal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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