Take Toxins Out Of Landfill By Recycling Old Golf Balls
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A local Realtor and golfer has taken a serious look at the land and come up with a way to change the world, one golf ball at a time. Christine Olah now makes the Oahu circuit with the Aloha Aina Earth Day recycling drives to education people about old golf balls and the harm they can do to public landfills.
“I volunteer here to get bad balls out of the environment and send them back to Dixon Golf,” explained Olah at the July 23 community recycling drive at KEY Project in Kahaluu. She doubles as a distributor for Dixon Golf, a manufacturer with a line of 100-percent recyclable golf balls called Earth, Wind and Fire. (Actor Don Cheadle is a Dixon Golf spokesman and fan of the new “Fire ball.”)
“I saw these collection drives going on, and I thought about how all these items wouldn’t be going into the landfill,” Olah said. Though regulated by weight and dimension, most golf balls, she noted, can have just about anything on the inside to achieve the weight.
Olah provides a flier from Arizona-based Dixon Golf that lists toxins such as lead, tungsten, cobalt or zinc that are used by golf ball manufacturers as filler. It’s better, she said, if those balls are recycled and shredded for use in synthetic field turf. Old balls collected at the recycling drives will be shipped by Dixon Golf back to Arizona to be shredded and reused for playground equipment and materials.
“An early motto Dixon considered was ‘Improve your game, improve the world,’” she said, “and I like it because it’s true.” Toward that goal, she hopes to connect with pro shops and retailers to promote discounts on Dixon products for those who bring in their old golf balls.
For more information about her effort, call Olah at 282-4010 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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