How Golf Is Polluting Our Oceans

300 million golf balls are lost every year

Dalmeet Singh Chawla
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJan 28, 2019

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Photo: Matthew Savoca

Alex Weber is no ordinary 18-year-old. Since spring 2016, she’s collected around 50,000 golf balls from the oceans surrounding Carmel Bay in California. It’s part of her effort to clean up a mess that presumably stems from years of golfing at nearby courses.

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
OneZero

Immigrant. Global Citizen. Science Journalist. Portfolio: www.dalmeets.com