#maui tennis ball recycling

A few Maui tennis players, with the financial support of the County of Maui Department of Environmental Management, have shipped more than 21,000 used tennis balls to the mainland for recycling over the past four years.

The recycling of 2,000 pounds of used Maui tennis balls has prevented a significant quantity of non-decomposable, methane producing rubber waste from ending up in our Maui landfill

From July 2018 through June 2019, a total of 7,043 used tennis balls were collected  and shipped to the mainland, where they found a new life as rubber crumbs  used in the construction of new tennis courts.