Golfis one of the most popular sports in the world – in the United States alone there are over 15,000 golf courses. Yet, each year,300 million golf balls go missing, with many ending up in bodies of water. One golf ball can take up to1,000 yearsto decompose, and as it does, it slowly excretes a large amount ofheavy metal zinc, a pollutant.
So, in an effort to make sports and leisure more environmentally friendly, the Spanish company Albus Golfhas created the Ecobioball: a golf ball packed with fish food that dissolves within 48 hours of being in water.
Now concrete is getting smart, too: it can report traffic flow, record the speed and weight of traveling vehicles, monitor its own structural health, and detect cracks.
