Do you class a Banana skin as litter?

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  • ForumNewbie
    ForumNewbie Posts: 1,664
    For those who think it's okay to throw a banana skin into a bush or hedgerow when out cycling, when they eat a banana at home, do they just throw the banana skin into their own garden to decompose? I would doubt it.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    For those who think it's okay to throw a banana skin into a bush or hedgerow when out cycling, when they eat a banana at home, do they just throw the banana skin into their own garden to decompose? I would doubt it.
    I for one have done it many times. Compost, don't you know.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,361
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
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  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Pinno wrote:
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
    Yeah, unlike all of the really important stuff we normally talk about here - which carbon wheels to buy, mechanical or Di2... :wink:
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    neeb wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
    Yeah, unlike all of the really important stuff we normally talk about here - which carbon wheels to buy, mechanical or Di2... :wink:
    At least you never brought up the subject of helmets.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,361
    PBlakeney wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
    Yeah, unlike all of the really important stuff we normally talk about here - which carbon wheels to buy, mechanical or Di2... :wink:
    At least you never brought up the subject of helmets.

    Discs or not two discs...
    Campag or ShimaNO...
    Fake Chinese hoops or real one's...
    Slicks or with a tread...
    Handbuilt or factory...

    There, I said it.

    Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah...
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    Pinno wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
    Yeah, unlike all of the really important stuff we normally talk about here - which carbon wheels to buy, mechanical or Di2... :wink:
    At least you never brought up the subject of helmets.

    Discs or not two discs...
    Campag or ShimaNO...
    Fake Chinese hoops or real one's...
    Slicks or with a tread...
    Handbuilt or factory...

    There, I said it.

    Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah...
    You forgot turbo or road.
    Jehovah is easy. Try Beetlejuice. :wink:
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,361
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    These first world problems :roll:

    Sometimes, I don't even wear a helmet when I am cycling
    Yeah, unlike all of the really important stuff we normally talk about here - which carbon wheels to buy, mechanical or Di2... :wink:
    At least you never brought up the subject of helmets.

    Discs or not two discs...
    Campag or ShimaNO...
    Fake Chinese hoops or real one's...
    Slicks or with a tread...
    Handbuilt or factory...

    There, I said it.

    Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah...
    You forgot turbo or road.
    Jehovah is easy. Try Beetlejuice. :wink:

    I did that once and the MIL popped up. Never again.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    PBlakeney wrote:
    You forgot turbo or road.

    Hey!!! I was just curious!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    Chris Bass wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    You forgot turbo or road.

    Hey!!! I was just curious!
    It was just a recent one so easy to remember. :wink:
    Compact or standard?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,361
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Chris Bass wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    You forgot turbo or road.

    Hey!!! I was just curious!
    It was just a recent one so easy to remember. :wink:
    Compact or standard?

    You ba$tard, how dare you?

    I'll match your compact or standard with: Longer or shorter crank arms?

    Stuff that in yer pipe and smoke it.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    Pinno wrote:

    Stuff that in yer pipe and smoke it.
    Already smoking better.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    For those who think it's okay to throw a banana skin into a bush or hedgerow when out cycling, when they eat a banana at home, do they just throw the banana skin into their own garden to decompose? I would doubt it.

    Actually - I do. But not only that, I also bring back banana skins and tea bags from work and compost those as well. If only the coffee at work was ground coffee instead of instant. I'd have that as well. It all goes either onto the compost heap or in the wormery.
  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Compost heap is ok but depending where you throw out the skins on your ride makes a bit of a difference. If in the mountains on your MTB it's not good since they don't compost that well in a probably acidic mountain soil that well. Lower down in a grass verge in say York plains then perhaps no issue.

    Personally I pack out what I pack in. Hardly a pita is it?

    PS anyone try smoking dried banana skins as a kid? That old getting high.thing that goes around school when you're young.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,361
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    PS anyone try smoking dried banana skins as a kid? That old getting high.thing that goes around school when you're young.

    Did you inhale?

    I heard it was just the stringy bits that did it and you had to grill it. It might have been just a rumour.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Pinno wrote:
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    PS anyone try smoking dried banana skins as a kid? That old getting high.thing that goes around school when you're young.

    Did you inhale?

    I heard it was just the stringy bits that did it and you had to grill it. It might have been just a rumour.
    Tried this as a teenager. We dried and smoked whole skins and only afterwards heard that you were only supposed to smoke the stringy bits... We managed to just about convince ourselves that we were perceiving the floor to be sloping more than it actually was. One of us even managed to fall over. Just goes to show the power of the placebo effect... :wink:

    Also smoked tea. I don't recommend that.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    Cinnamon sticks as a 10 year old. Don't recommend it.
    Also quite possibly when I started to develop cynicism.
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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    A lass at our school had a few days off sick then came back with hair heavily dyed red and a rumour she'd been ill after trying to smoke dried leaves to.get high. It was autumn and we all guessed she was a bit of a stoner at times so it kind of made sense. :D
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    did no one else just smoke drugs? that's what people did when i was young!
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    Chris Bass wrote:
    did no one else just smoke drugs? that's what people did when i was young!
    You have to start somewhere.......
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Chris Bass wrote:
    did no one else just smoke drugs? that's what people did when i was young!
    You have to start somewhere.......

    I started with crack and worked backwards!
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  • mattsccm
    mattsccm Posts: 409
    In the hedge? hmm no big deal but not where it ca be seen. In the middle of the road. Fine by me. It will be smashed in no time and make its own happy way back to the soil.
    here in the FoD the sheep and wild boar enjoy the skins.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    For those who think it's okay to throw a banana skin into a bush or hedgerow when out cycling, when they eat a banana at home, do they just throw the banana skin into their own garden to decompose? I would doubt it.
    Better than putting it in the bin and sending it to landfill where it won't decompose for decades. Of course, rather than throwing it into the garden, throwing it into the compost bin might be more sensible......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,106
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    For those who think it's okay to throw a banana skin into a bush or hedgerow when out cycling, when they eat a banana at home, do they just throw the banana skin into their own garden to decompose? I would doubt it.

    Yes sometimes I do - not on the lawn but we've got quite a "mature" garden - unkind neighbours may call it unkempt - and if I leave the house with a banana or finishing an apple or some other fruit I'll quite often toss the skin, core, stone or whatever behind our hedge out of sight.
    [Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,347
    haydendmorrison wrote:
    I tend to leave mine in the front garden though, it goes nicely next to the old sofa and washing machine...
    Ooooo! Look at you. A washing machine. Fancy pants.
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  • lemon63
    lemon63 Posts: 253
    Overlord2 wrote:
    In the street - litter.
    In a hedge - to a sheep - litter.

    Actually sheep love 'em (Welsh sheep anyway)
  • nicklong
    nicklong Posts: 231
    Where's the 'not very biodegradable' line drawn?

    Into a hedge / verge:

    - water - definitely not litter
    - thick veggie soup - not litter ?
    - digestive biscuits - not litter ?

    - jelly - litter ?
    - chocolate hob nobs - litter ?
    - chicken wings - definitely litter
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    nicklong wrote:
    Where's the 'not very biodegradable' line drawn?

    Into a hedge / verge:

    - water - definitely not litter
    - thick veggie soup - not litter ?
    - digestive biscuits - not litter ?

    - jelly - litter ?
    - chocolate hob nobs - litter ?
    - chicken wings - definitely litter

    6 newborn puppies?
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    nicklong wrote:
    Where's the 'not very biodegradable' line drawn?

    Into a hedge / verge:

    - water - definitely not litter
    - thick veggie soup - not litter ?
    - digestive biscuits - not litter ?

    - jelly - litter ?
    - chocolate hob nobs - litter ?
    - chicken wings - definitely litter

    6 newborn puppies?
    I believe all of those things would biodegrade / get scavenged quicker than a banana skin. With the possible exception of the chicken & puppy bones..

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