BounceBack Pickle

BounceBack Pickle is the world's first closed-loop recycling service for pickleball. We are on a mission to eliminate the ever-growing 770,000 lbs of broken pickleball waste sent to landfills every year by turning it into the world's first 100% recycled pickleballs. As the sport's popularity explodes, so does its waste - and no one was solving it. We collect used and cracked balls from facilities nationwide, reprocess them into raw material, and manufacture new balls from the ground up. BounceBack Pickle is laying the foundation to turn the world's fastest-growing sport into the world's first truly sustainable one.

Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in America, and it comes with a problem nobody is talking about. Over 770,000 lbs of broken pickleballs are thrown away every year, and that number grows as the sport does. These balls are made from a durable plastic that does not biodegrade, meaning every cracked ball ever thrown in a trash can is still sitting in a landfill today. Until now, there has been no system in place to do anything about it. BounceBack Pickle exists because that gap cannot go unfilled. We are the world's first closed-loop recycling service for pickleball - the only company collecting used and cracked balls from facilities, reprocessing them into raw material, and manufacturing new balls from that recycled content. No one else is doing this. We are not a partial solution or a feel-good program. We are a full-circle system built to remove waste from the sport entirely. The product at the center of that system is the world's first 100% recycled pickleball. This is not a byproduct of our mission - it is the proof of it. A recycled ball that performs at the level players expect validates the entire model and creates a revenue stream that funds the recycling infrastructure. The product and the mission are the same thing. The market has already responded. Before generating a dollar of revenue, BounceBack Pickle has accumulated over 3 million organic social media views, 7,500+ followers, and 200+ inbound facility requests from across the country. We have onboarded 30+ partner facilities into our pilot program and completed a full prototype run from used ball to new ball. The demand is real and it arrived without us asking for it. The window to own this space is open right now, but it will not stay open. Pickleball's growth is attracting attention from major sporting goods brands, and the sustainability conversation in sports is accelerating. BounceBack Pickle is already positioned as the category leader - with the infrastructure, the partnerships, and the product to back it up. We are not just building a company. We are laying the foundation to turn the world's fastest-growing sport into the world's first truly sustainable one by giving every cracked pickleball a second life.