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Our Impact

Real Toys. Real Tails. Real Impact.

Bark Balls started with a simple idea: the tennis ball your dog loves shouldn’t end its life in a landfill. Here’s what that idea has added up to.

Natalie Ball in a van full of bags of collected tennis balls
50,000+
Tennis balls given a second life
20,000+
Tennis balls collected in 2025 alone
700+
Orders
All 50
Shipped to all 50 states
2023
Fetching since 2023
Harvard
Incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs

As of October 2026

The Problem

The Problem We’re Fetching Our Way Out Of

Tennis is a wonderful sport with a not-so-wonderful waste problem. The numbers are big — but so is the opportunity.

330M
330 million tennis balls are made each year
125M
About 125 million end up in US landfills each year
~1%
Only about 1% are ever recycled
~400
They take around 400 years to break down

A tennis ball’s career on the court lasts a few games. With a dog, it’s just getting started.

We rescue those balls, inspect them, and put them back to work doing the thing dogs love most.

Programs

The Programs Behind the Impact

How Bark Balls keeps balls in play and gives back.

Fetch Forward

For players and families. Box up your dry, intact balls and ship them our way. We’ll give them another throw.

Court-to-Canine

For clubs, schools, universities, academies, and rec programs. Collect your retired balls and we arrange pickup — freight for pallets, a prepaid label for boxes.

Give a Bark

Bark like trees, bark like happy dogs. A portion of every purchase supports animal shelters, humane societies, and environmental causes — you choose at checkout.

Natalie and Tilly at a Humane Colorado event with collected tennis balls
Full Circle

Humane Colorado

Even shelters end up with more tennis balls than they can use. Humane Colorado sends us their extras, we turn them into fetch packs, and part of the sales goes right back to them.

Where Your Impact Goes

Where Your Impact Goes

Bark like trees, bark like happy dogs. A portion of every purchase supports animal shelters, humane societies, and environmental causes — you choose at checkout. These are the organizations we support today.

This roster grows as we do. Every ball you give another throw helps keep it growing. 🎾

A Bark Balls supporter walking her doodle

Ready to Make an Impact?

Real tennis balls. Less Waste. More Wag. A portion of every purchase gives back — you choose where at checkout.

We’d love to partner with more tournaments, facilities, and players to give every tennis ball a second life. Less Waste. More Wag.

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