The HOA isn't going to be happy about the colour, though.

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d cheer to this but I put my nuts in a meatgrinder if these balls aren’t as full of microplastics as my braincells

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s exactly my first thought. Whenever I see upcycled things that will just break down into microplastics in nature, I wince.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your nuts are also full of microplastics

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  • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s almost aired that your brain isn’t filled with microplastics. The study that claimed that was pretty flawed. B as usual the sensational got media attention but the refuting studies did not.

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    • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess I can take apart the meatgrinder then

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it’s an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don’t have one of these negative outcomes:

  • Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
  • Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
  • Just don’t get used by the target species

  There’s some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls

  I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

  Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

    I’m in a completely different field, but there’s nothing more awesome than seeing your work get used in real life situations that actually match up with your goals.

    And people showing a genuine interest is a close second.

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not to mention that just leaving tennis balls out in the wild for wildlife means all that rubber and plastic and glue and whatnot leeching into the soil and environs.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you, I treasure comments like this! Does he weigh in on swift bricks anywhere? I do hope he likes those, at least.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  55000? Do they use a new one every… uh… s… serve? Is serve the word? Anyway, where does this huge number come from?

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t know this until recently, but tennis balls wear out quite fast. Not structurally, not the felt, but the air inside escapes with the extreme pressure they endure. And soon they don’t bounce so well.

    If only sports balls had a way to refill the air…

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    • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or just set a rule that you use the same ball the entire match. Balls wears out? Tough titties… improvise, adapt, and overcome.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imagine if professionals had to play like you and I did.

      Not ideal conditions because who tf wanna go through 6,000 tennis balls in 1 day.

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    • Killer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wonder what feasability of redesigning the tennis ball to be like those airless basketballs are

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• pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?

  This just made me look up and learn about how tennis balls are an environmental problem.

  Every year, an estimated 300 million tennis balls are manufactured globally, and most of them end up in landfills. The rubber core is pressurized with air or nitrogen to give the ball its signature bounce. However, rubber itself is a challenging material to recycle, especially when combined with pressurization and other materials. The felt covering is partially synthetic (nylon), which contributes to the microplastic pollution problem. Synthetic fibers shed during play, adding to global plastic waste.

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  • Pirat@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?

    Sometimes it just works. Small octopuses love to take up residence in a beer bottle. It might not be the prettiest thing to find on the ocean bottom but it’s often home to one of the most intelligent invertebrates.

    And, after all, that glass is just congealed sand.

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  • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the problem with Tennis. The most wasteful sport as balls can’t be recycled unless used for slides for school chairs or now nests for mice.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Plastic polution feel good story.

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• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You will be glad to know that HOAs are almost unheard of in the UK and where they exist they’re usually nothing more than an organisation for tending to the village green, common areas and sometimes library book boxes.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Though that’s usually a parish council matter instead.

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• callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “upcycled”

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The way that’s angled, doesn’t it just immediately fill with water the first time it rains?

  Why don’t they just change the tennis regulations to only use biodegradable materials?

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• ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What colour are tennis balls again?

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