Posted on 11/10/2009 8:44:58 AM PST by Reaganesque
London, England (CNN) -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.
The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.
It is thought tourists and locals have used the loch as an alternative driving range for many years. The footage shot by underwater robotics team SeaTrepid, can be seen below.
With an increasing number of golf balls discarded each year, the Danish Golf Association devised a number of tests to determine the environmental impact of golf balls on their surroundings...
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Um...sorry! PING! ;-)
Thanks! That’s more like it. LOL!
Earth is in the balance. If we continue as we are, the sheer weight of the golf balls will surely tilt Earth off its axis and accelerate global warming. And with global warming will become warmer weather more conducive for golf and the problems will only accelerate from there.
Al Gore, come save us!
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