Did you know that 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.

Reid Tennis Club has partnered with Game On Recycling to collect and recycle tennis balls. 

From now on, you can dispose of your unwanted and unloved 'dead' tennis balls in the collection unit located inside the Clubhouse.

Any old but still playable balls can be put in the Reid basket alongside that anyone is free to use.

All collected items in the Game On Recycling unit will be 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

Re-use items will be made available to various community clubs, groups, institutions and organisations, alleviating 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).

We hope you’ll join us in our endeavours to reduce the amount of waste generated from old tennis balls, and help evolve tennis into an ecologically and environmentally aware sport.