CarbonFree® Partner
Rebounces
Description
In 2008, three friends partnered to form Rebounces. Using a proprietary and first-of-its kind technology, Rebounces recharges flat tennis balls – those that have lost their bounce – and provides them in bulk to teaching professionals at discount. What this means is tremendous savings for professional, avid and weekend tennis players, along with trainers and institutions. It also means that more flat tennis balls are kept out of landfills, where more than 310+ million balls (US alone) end up annually.
Rebounces is revolutionizing the tennis industry by looking at how it must evolve to keep up with environmental concerns and the overall need for change. Rebounces’ mission is to support the sustainable growth of the game of tennis by providing alternative ways to recycle tennis balls, and ultimately provide children with more access to the game.
Rebounces doesn’t stop with the tennis industry. When balls are too worn out for the court and can no longer be “Rebounced,” the company makes them available for some unique non-tennis and recycling uses. Its motto, Reply, Reuse and Recycle tells a story that is in need of being heard.
1) Replay= Give tennis balls extended life —bring just-out-of-the-can bounce back;
2) Reuse = Non-traditional uses for tennis balls to extend their life and reduce landfill waste; and
3) Recycle = Establish partnerships in a variety of industries to determine smart uses for worn tennis balls.
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Commitment
Rebounces started the first National Tennis Ball Recycling campaign to begin to divert the 300+ million balls used in America each year (over 20,000 tons of rubber to the landfill). We reuse all boxes used in shipping our balls and we offset all carbon from Rebounces related shipments (both to and from Rebounces for any reason). Currently we are carbon negative and very proud to be the leader in ‘Greening Tennis’
Partner Quote
“It was a no-brainer… Rebounces did a lot of research and Carbonfund was definitely the best partner we could have chosen for offsetting the carbon we emit through shipping and operations.”
