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These tips are so practical that you might want to go out and buy some tennis balls if you don’t have any on hand. Gustavo Tabosa / Shutterstock.com
Around 125 million tennis balls end up in U.S. landfills every year, taking up to 400 years to decompose, according to RecycleBalls, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to recycling tennis balls. If you’re an avid tennis player, you’ve probably accumulated a stockpile of tennis balls that long ago lost their bounce. But that doesn’t mean those neon-colored balls must wind up in a landfill.