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Biodegradable Golf Balls

Golf balls that dissolve in water away to nothing – guilt free and responsible golfing perfect for:

  • Events
  • Parties
  • Cruise Ships
  • Yachts
  • Resorts
  • Waterfront / Beachfront property

Biodegradable Golf Canada is experiencing the same guilt and anxiety as almost everyone else in North America – plastic pollution is out of control has created a Trash Island in the North Pacific more than double the size of Texas, actively killing marine life from rare sea birds like the Albatross to more common but critical animals like whales.

One of the worst plastic pollution sources is, surprisingly, golf! Standard golf balls are easily carried around the ocean by tides and currents, getting bashed against ocean floor rocks and flaking off into toxic microplastics (plastic fragments smaller than 5 millimeters or less than 1/8th of an inch) that enter fishes gills and the global water supply, making real people sick.

These golf balls don’t just come from driving directly into the ocean, either – golf courses that use nearby streams and rivers as water traps contribute to the problem as well.

We want to join in to fight plastic pollution, and solve this problem by providing guilt-free golfing through our biodegradable golf balls.

Athena (Pomchi) enjoys Biodegradable Golf Balls almost as much as humans!

Our biodegradable golf balls are composed of two simple, non-toxic ingredients:

  • Corn Starch
  • Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA)

Corn starch is a familiar material you know and probably already have in your home, but PVA might be new to you. PVA is basically a magic material – it works kind of like a plastic and kind of like an adhesive until it is introduced to water, where it immediately reacts with the water and starts dissolving. Then, the corn starch does what corn starch does – mixes in with the water and floats away.

Because both ingredients are organic, this means that you can chip or drive our biodegradable golf balls directly into bodies of water without worrying about the golf ball pollution the ocean for centuries to come – it’ll be completely dissolved in about 2 weeks!

If you have any questions, use the contact form at the bottom of the page to get in touch!