Cyclists and littering

[beastie]

There is other sizes available, high 5 do a 3 gel flask. Can't do linky as am on phone

 

[Dave Davenport]

I thought I'd do a small test to see how long a banana skin takes to decompose and chucked one on the garden two weeks ago, it now looks like this;

Give it another week or two and it will have disappeared, I think it would have rotted even quicker in warm weather.
I'll carry on chucking mine in the countryside.

 

[billy1561]

The news for banana-lobbers is not good. Unless there a few handy baboons lurking in the bushes, they hang around for up to two years.
Lookee here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland

I keep chickens and you should see the speed they devour bananas including skins! So if anyone cycles past any chickens in a field....

 

[Kookas]

I'll hold my hands up and admit, there have been times I have lobbed a gel packet! Generally I put any litter (little bit of cling film) up my short leg, banana skins back in my jersey pocket, gel packets, usually wedged somewhere on the bike so I don't get sticky pockets etc, but on occasion when they have been exceptionally sticky, or if I all of a sudden needed free hands I have lobbed it. No excuse, poor behaviour on my part, but I have done it and chances are there will be some occasions in the future when I do it again, albeit few and far between.

Banana skins aren't littering, just make sure you throw them far enough.