Now it's time for biodegradable golf balls to be made out of lobster shells!

Finally, we have come across an ingenious innovation leading to a pretty simplistic solution; these are the first of their kind of golf balls to be created from crushed lobster shells with a biodegradable binder and coating. Intended to be used in cruisers, such balls could totally nullify the adverse effect of plastic polymers in marine life resulting from the usage of conventional golf balls.

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Moreover, it is not just about the marine life; such golf balls make use of waste materials that are actually the by-products of the lobster canning industry. As David Neivandt, a professor of biological and chemical engineering at the University of Maine, said:

We’re using a byproduct of the lobster canning industry which is currently miserably underutilized — it ends up in a landfill.

They could even prove to be cost effective, as the raw materials for the lobster shell balls cost as little as 19 cents per ball. Undergraduate student Alex Caddell, a golfer who participated in the engineering effort mentioned that the flight quality of this new type of ball is almost as good as the conventional one. He said:

The flight properties are amazing. It doesn't fly quite as far as a regular golf ball, but we're actually getting a similar distance to other biodegradable golf balls.

Source: MSNBC