{"id":125154,"date":"2021-06-09T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/assagen-la-valoritzacio-de-pilotes-de-tennis-per-generar-un-material-termoplastic-sostenible\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T13:45:45","slug":"trials-on-recovering-tennis-balls-to-generate-sustainable-thermoplastic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/en\/trials-on-recovering-tennis-balls-to-generate-sustainable-thermoplastic-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Trials on recovering tennis balls to generate sustainable thermoplastic material"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1424.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eurecat.org\/\">Eurecat<\/a>\u00a0technology centre has teamed up with SecondSet to conduct a groundbreaking trial designed to recover end-of-life tennis balls and use them to develop a sustainable thermoplastic material. The results are being unveiled this week at the Advanced Factories fair taking place in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>This is \u201ca circular economy initiative which paves the way to developing new sustainable sporting goods made from rubber recovered from end-of-life padel and tennis balls,\u201d says Mar\u00eda Eugenia Rodr\u00edguez, the director of the Composite Materials Unit at Eurecat.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the tests performed might be \u201cthe starting point for the generation of a range of innovative and sustainable products aimed at the sports sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new material developed by recovering tennis balls is thermoplastic and so \u201cit will be recyclable and can be reused again to make products by tapping conventional plastic processing technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 325 million padel, paddle tennis and tennis balls are produced worldwide each year. In Catalonia alone, three million balls are used which translates into 200 tons of waste per year.<\/p>\n<p>The balls have a short service life (3-4 games) mainly due to their loss of pressure and reduced playing performance. The main component of this type of ball is cross-linked rubber, a thermosetting material that is hard to recycle and has very low degradability which means that it would take over 100 years to decompose in landfill. Furthermore, although it is high heating value waste, incineration is not recommended.<\/p>\n<p>This means \u201capplying circular economy principles to end-of-life ball rubber to develop thermoplastic compounds is a sustainable alternative with a lower environmental impact than the solutions used so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":115298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742,743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fires-en","category-press-notes-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trials on recovering tennis balls to generate sustainable thermoplastic material - Eurecat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trials on recovering tennis balls to generate sustainable thermoplastic material\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eurecat.org\/en\/trials-on-recovering-tennis-balls-to-generate-sustainable-thermoplastic-material\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trials on recovering tennis balls to generate sustainable thermoplastic material - 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