Green Heroes: Renewaball

Our world consumes millions of tennis balls every year. Renewaball is the first to make them sustainable and eco-friendly.

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00:00Globally, we use 300 million tennis balls a year.

00:12We found out that 97% of all tennis balls end up in landfill or incineration.

00:33Renewable is the first ever circular tennis ball.

00:36So it's a tennis ball made of old used tennis ball.

00:40And it's produced locally here in Europe.

00:43Compared to normal tennis balls, they are produced in the Far East.

00:49At over 200 clubs here in the Netherlands, we have a collection container where people

00:54after they've played a match and the balls are old, they put the balls in the container.

01:00And we see via a microchip whether the container is full.

01:06We separate the black rubber and the polyester and the nylon.

01:11The black rubber we use again on renewables and we put 100% biological felt on top of

01:16it.

01:17Our tennis ball has 29% lower CO2 emissions than a normal tennis ball.

01:39We have a very ambitious plan because we want to be the new benchmark in tennis balls.

01:44We just launched this year in the Netherlands.

01:46We are launching next year in Germany.

01:48And from there we take the biggest tennis countries in Europe, France, Spain, Italy.

01:52And then we continue to the US and the Far East.