Ad-In Bins to Help Reduce Our Environmental Footprint
We're so excited to announce a new program at Midtown Athletic Club in Palatine, IL that combines two of our favorite things: green initiatives and giving back to the community.
We're collecting used tennis balls in Ad-In Bins to donate to local schools and charities, and to businesses that can use them to make new court or playground surfaces.
According to retourtennis.com, 125 million tennis balls are sold each year in the United States. It takes 400 years for a tennis ball to biodegrade once discarded, and 200 tennis balls are discarded monthly per park.
125 million tennis balls enter U.S. landfills annually.
We're hoping this program helps reduce waste as well as the club's environmental footprint.
The program kicks off on Monday, January 11, 2016 and if successful, we plan on rolling it out to our other clubs.
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