New York City recycling facilities receive 1,200 bowling balls each year

Sims Municipal Recycling in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood is the country's largest recycling facility. And as Curbed recently explained, they've been overwhelmed by unrecyclable bowling balls for years:

When Tom Outerbridge, who is the facility's general manager, started at Sims more than 15 years ago, he started rescuing the wayward balls.