Golf Balls Take 1000 Years to Decompose
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-15
TOPICS:
Chemical Elements • Transition Metals • Zinc • Golf Equipment • Golf Ball • Decomposition • Hospitality_recreation
[241 diggs @ Environment] Not only do golf balls take between a century and millennium to break down, they release toxic zinc in the process. This heavy metal attaches itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna when in water. Other heavy met...
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