So tennis season is in full swing, the courts are crowded and littered. . .literally with dead balls and metal tops from ball cans.
Tennis balls are vacuum sealed and although the can is mostly plastic, the top is a metal pull top. As a player, I’ve always enjoyed cracking open a fresh can. Crack. Woosh. And then a whiff of fresh balls (probably not too healthy since it’s the manufacturing process sealed into the can). Players tend to toss the metal tops aside once they have the tennis balls.
Previously, I have to admit I never really thought about it and tossed the tops into the trash as I left the courts. The other day I was gathering some old keys to do some metal recycling which made think about what other types of scrap metal can be recycled. I took a closer look at the cap I still had in my tennis bag. It was stamped with “ALUMINUM RECYCLES”. So this season I’ve started making a habit of picking up any metal caps I find lying around the courts to recycle them (don’t forget to recycle the plastic cans as well) . Normally, I detest litter littering and litterers, however, their laziness prevents a number of caps (no matter how small the amount) from going into a landfill. 
Now, if only we could recycle all those dead tennis balls (more on that later).
