[P2assist] tennis balls

[Rogers, Jim]

The notion of using tennis balls as shredded amendment to asphalt or roofing
media has been proposed and it's meaningful just as worn tires would be.
It's difficult to envision a place in North Carolina where this weird
accumulation of used tennis balls would be of sufficient quantity to be a
real world landfill choker. 

Another possible meaningful use would be in Material Handling as a
substitute to Styrofoam peanuts.  As EMS is driving companies to look at
solid waste minimization, there are more efforts to go to re-useable
dunnage.  Suppliers and customers create closed loops with returnable bins,
skids and boxes.  Conceivably a component or subassembly might require shock
resistant packaging in a container and used tennis balls could fill the void
(fill the void... get it?).  Containment and control of them in a
Shipping/Receiving environment might be problematic.  There would probably
need to be yet another 29CFR rewrite to address this new class of industrial
fall and/or engulfing hazard.

Best regards,

	Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryant, Thomas J. [mailto:tbryant@co.durham.nc.us]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:35 PM
To: P2assist; 'Tom Rhodes'
Subject: RE: [P2assist] tennis balls


Tom, is this a legitimate question, or are you just throwing something out
to the group to get the ball rolling? No pun intended.

> ----------
> From: 	Tom Rhodes[SMTP:tom.rhodes@ncmail.net]
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:53 PM
> To: 	P2assist
> Subject: 	[P2assist] tennis balls
> 
> 10-S-N-E-1 ?
>  
> I'd like some recommendations from our P2assist Listserv members about
> what to do with used tennis balls. One of our colleagues is trying to find
> a use/market for the balls. Apparently, they have lost some of their
> bounce, but they are still in usable shape but not enough bounce for
> tennis. Any ideas?
>  
> Tom Rhodes
> Waste Management Analyst
> NC DENR Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance
> 1639 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27629-1639
> (919) 715-6516
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