Return to Blog   Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Golf Balls: "Humanity's Signature Litter" CNN reports that golf balls take 100 to 1,000 years to decompose naturally. An estimated 300,000,000 are lost in the U.S. alone EACH YEAR. 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 was found that during decomposition, the golf balls dissolved to release a high quantity of heavy metals. Dangerous levels of zinc were found in the synthetic rubber filling used in solid core golf balls. When submerged in water, the zinc attached itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna. Quick solution? Keep your shots in the fairway... Rick Arnett

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