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No one knows for certain if the Loch Ness monster played golf—though the notion seems absurd. Nevertheless, during a sonar search to find the Loch Ness monster, a group of scientists discovered more than 100,000 golf balls. Countless golf balls are lost every year around the world. However total golf ball losses are estimated at 300 million. Thousands of golf balls are lost each day in lakes, forests, deserts, backyards, parking lots, rooftops and even in pool, lakes and streams. But in the last few years, the simple, seemingly inconsequential lost golf ball has stumbled upon a new international renown and import.

These lost golf balls have conspicuously proven to be of negative ecological influence just as the game yearns to be viewed as more green. Today’s very tough economic climate and stringent pollution laws means the retrieval as well as discount repackaging of lost golf balls has mushroomed into a most attractive, growing business on the world scene. However there is trouble in paradise. The lost golf balls are also seen as a fatalistic metaphor not just for the purpose of golf, but for life.

Studies have found that most of the golf balls start to break down between 50 to 500 years. Whether the great multitude of lost golf balls rotting under logs or slowly dissolving at the bottom of swampy estuaries pose an environment hazard is also apparently undetermined. It was also found that at the time of decomposition these balls dissolve and release a high quantity of metals. Especially dangerous is the zinc found in the synthetic rubber filling used in the solid core of golf balls. During the time it is submerged in the water, this zinc attaches itself to the ground sediment and also affects the surrounding plants and animals.

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