I’d cheer to this but I put my nuts in a meatgrinder if these balls aren’t as full of microplastics as my braincells
Your nuts are also full of microplastics
It’s almost assured that your brain isn’t filled with microplastics or at the very least much less than claimed. The study that claimed that was pretty flawed. As usual the sensational got media attention but the refuting studies did not.
I guess I can take apart the meatgrinder then
nuts dangling with reflief
It’s for the best. You’re nuts… will… thank you, I guess?
This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it’s an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don’t have one of these negative outcomes:
- Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
- Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
- Just don’t get used by the target species
There’s some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls
I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.
Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.
I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.
I’m in a completely different field, but there’s nothing more awesome than seeing your work get used in real life situations that actually match up with your goals.
And people showing a genuine interest is a close second.
Thank you, I treasure comments like this! Does he weigh in on swift bricks anywhere? I do hope he likes those, at least.
55000? Do they use a new one every… uh… s… serve? Is serve the word? Anyway, where does this huge number come from?
A professional tennis serve often reaches speeds up to 230km/h, with the fastest recorded being 263km/h. So yeah, the balls wear out quickly.
I just learnt that there are 660 matches. That’s SIGNIFICANTLY more than I thought (I know nothing about tennis), the number of balls makes more sense now.
So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?
This just made me look up and learn about the environmental impact of tennis balls.
So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?
Sometimes it just works. Small octopuses love to take up residence in a beer bottle. It might not be the prettiest thing to find on the ocean bottom but it’s often home to one of the most intelligent invertebrates.
And, after all, that glass is just congealed sand.
That’s the problem with Tennis. The most wasteful sport as balls can’t be recycled unless used for slides for school chairs or now nests for mice.
What colour are tennis balls again?
