An estimated 10 million tennis balls are purchased in Australia each year. Unfortunately, at the end of their useful lives, all of them end up either in landfills or in our waterways, eventually working their way into the ocean. Game On Recycling has partnered with the Australian New Zealand Recycling Platform and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Our old tennis balls are now sent to a processing facility in West Melbourne to be sorted into:

• Tennis balls that can be reused and put back into circulation, thereby extending the life of the product; or
• Tennis balls that have well and truly come to the end of their life and need to be recycled

We are trying to score a points for planet earth by making available all re-use items to various community clubs, groups, institutions and organisations which will alleviate the costs of purchasing new equipment. Items destined for recycling will be granulated into 5mm pieces and used in a variety of manufacturing processes including the production of soft fall matting.

All recycling and downstream processing will be undertaken in Australia. Game On Recycling will also be conducting research to explore new uses for these materials (like a rubberised sporting surface).