Second, the environmental movement has continuously made a big deal about ‘releases toxins into the environment’, as though anything that could be toxic in concentrated amounts is – by definition – toxic. That is simply not true. Toxicity is a measure of both dose and level of affect on a given organism. Even water is toxic in high enough doses. (But you don’t hear environmentalists harping on the toxic effects of water on the environment because everyone would simply laugh at them.) Fear mongers use the general ignorance of basic science to spread this sort of scare to a bunch of people who don’t know any better.

Third, the amount of Zinc, Tungsten or Lead in a golf ball is so minute as to be nearly immeasurable. By volume, the amount released by decomposing golf balls would be indistinguishable from the background noise of all the other minerals in a given area. Add to that the slow decay (even over 1 year) of golf balls, and their relatively small size – and you could take _ALL_ of the lost golf balls (world wide) in a given year and place them a single local water supply without an measurable affect of the safety of the water. I know I wouldn’t have any trouble drinking from it.

I dare say – you scare mongers need to stop this silliness.