Renewaball - Rubio Impact Report 2024

Let’s make circularity the new normal in sports 🎾

Renewaball is the first company that has figured out how to recycle a tennis and padel ball. They collect and recycle end-of-life tennis balls into new ones through their proprietary technology: processing used balls into clean and separate partitions of rubber and felt and putting them back together and creating a new ball, with bio-felt cloth (100% organic: wool, and cotton). By doing so, they can reduce the carbon footprint of a single tennis ball by at least 29%.

For Renewaball we track the impact target:

Tons of CO2 avoided as a result of collecting and recycling tennis/padel balls

This target link to Sustainable Development Goal 12.

Impact Case Renewaball

Impact Case: Renewaball

In this impact case of Renewaball, you can read all about how Renewaball is transforming the sports industry by creating the world’s first fully circular tennis and padel ball, drastically reducing waste and CO₂ emissions while setting a new standard for sustainability in sports.

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