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On average, Hong Kong consumes more than 2 million tennis balls every year. A charitable foundation has launched the first sports consumable recycling project in Hong Kong. The collected old tennis balls will be reshaped into works of art furniture, and the discarded tennis balls will be brought back to life. A series of exhibits will be on display at G/F, Lee Theatre Plaza, Causeway Bay, from today (17th) to 31st of this month.

Secretary for the Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said at the launching ceremony that to become a green and livable city with zero carbon emissions, all people must reduce waste and practice low-carbon life. He hoped that more groups in Hong Kong would actively promote sports and sustainable environmental protection The idea is to create a second life for waste materials.

The "AFTERLIFE™ just as beautiful project" initiated by the "Sports Burning Hope Fund" and former Hong Kong tennis representative Tong Jiabao collects discarded tennis balls from 21 private clubs in Hong Kong and tennis centers under the LCSD, and makes them together with home designer Yang Zhichao. A series of artworks by artists are expected to reduce the pressure on the environment and avoid the fate of old tennis balls being sent to landfills.