Trash talk

Trash talk

Part of what motivates us OLAUGers is of course taking care of the freshwater ponds of Cape Cod. These beautiful jewels are delicate ecosystems filled with turtles, frogs, insects, birds, and plants, whose survival depends on each other, and on us not altering things too much. Here are some of the reasons trash does not belong in these ponds.

Approximately 1.2 billion golf balls are manufactured each year, and around 300 million are lost annually in the United States alone. Sometimes we think most of those end up in our ponds!