By Iron Chef Leftovers
A professor a the University of Maine has come up with a way to turn lobster shells into bio-degradable golf balls. Some of the details:
The lobster golf balls solve two environmental problems, actually. “We’re using a byproduct of the lobster-canning industry, which is currently miserably underutilized — it ends up in a landfill,” Neivandt said.
Neivandt and Caddell see the golf balls as particularly useful on cruise ships. They can be used with both drivers and irons, Caddell told WMTW.
Biodegradable golf balls currently on the market sell for about $1 a ball retail; the raw materials for the lobster shell balls cost as little as 19 cents.
I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise that someone from Maine came up with this, although I am surprised that it took this long. It makes me wonder if the same could be done with crab shells, since we do have a pretty large Dungeness crab processing industry in the Pacific Northwest.
This also gives me an idea for the next time I do a lobster dinner…
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