(Smile File) What to do with 55,000 used tennis balls

Wimbledon officials do something really interesting to do with the 55,000 tennis balls used during the Wimbleton Tennis Championships.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You might know that the Wimbledon tennis tournament just wrapped
over the weekend. They used at the tournament about fifty
five thousand tennis balls. Are you serious they do? So?
What do they do with all the extra balls that
they have? Well, first of all, they do something amazing.
They partner with the Wildlife Trust and they use the

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tennis balls to be turned into a safe weather proof
shelter for these little vulnerable harvest mouses, meases, mooses. Really, yeah,
isn't that the cutest thing? Who would have thought about that?
I know, it's so interesting. That's really interesting, very cool.