Sumi's Smart Picks: Dixon Golf Balls

>> Sumi Das: Hello, everyone, an welcome to Sumi's Smart Picks. I'm Sumi Das, and each week I'll tell you about a clever product that in one way or another, helps us live cleaner, greener lives. This week, I've chosen Dixon Golf Balls. These are 100 percent recyclable and they're made from materials that can be reprocessed. These ones are extra special. They have the SmartPlanet logo on them. Now, you may not realize this, but golf balls are a bit of a problem for the planet. Researchers found that they take anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years to decompose. Now, these are similar to traditional golf balls in that they are made predominantly out of rubber and plastic. The difference lies in the core. Traditional golf balls have heavy metals in the core. When the ball decomposes, those metals are released into the environment, and that sometimes includes dangerous levels of zinc, which poses a serious risk to the environment. Think of all the golf balls that are on golf courses or worse yet, at the bottom of ponds and streams. Dixon Golf Balls have a proprietary polymer in the core that is 100 percent recyclable, so that means no heavy metals inside here. These are recycled the same way that tires are recycled, so if you go to your local mechanic, they have a stack of tires that they're going to recycle, check them in there, or, you can take them back to a Dixon Golf retailer. My only caveat is that I'm not a golfer, or at least I'm a very poor golfer, so I can't speak to the performance, but they do seem to have a bunch of celebrity endorsements on their site. So that's my Smart Pick for this week, Dixon Golf Balls. Check back next week for more.

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