How do you dispose of a banana skin?

[clid61]

I eat the skin too

 

[classic33]

Childhood training was if nature made it you can throw it away, if man made it stick it in a bin. Probably a bit Swiss for Leeds in the 50s. Personally, though, every time I take a banana out with me I end up forgetting about it and arrive home with a considerably blackened and bruised banana that I no longer have any desire to eat. I don't think bananas like bikes.

Rusty banana skins.

 

[Tim Hall]

Childhood training was if nature made it you can throw it away, if man made it stick it in a bin. Probably a bit Swiss for Leeds in the 50s. Personally, though, every time I take a banana out with me I end up forgetting about it and arrive home with a considerably blackened and bruised banana that I no longer have any desire to eat. I don't think bananas like bikes.

Certain members here choose their bananas to match the curve of their drop handlebars and secure them with a length of velcro. No more bruised and blackened bananas.

 

[Pale Rider]

Certain members here choose their bananas to match the curve of their drop handlebars and secure them with a length of velcro. No more bruised and blackened bananas.

Safe and unbruised banana carriage on a bicycle is not easy.

I've seen plastic banana-shaped boxes, but getting one the correct radius would be a worry for me.

 

[slowmotion]

I ate a banana before the FNRttC that began in an NCP near Victoria a few years ago. I wandered round an entire block looking for a waste bin. Eventually, and frustrated, I angrily stuffed it into the narrow slot of a ciggie butt bin outside a smart office building. I skinned my knuckles.

 

[classic33]

Why throw them!

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[snorri]

Take the skins home, dry them and post them back to the banana plantation, it's the only way.

 

[Dec66]

Safe and unbruised banana carriage on a bicycle is not easy.

I've seen plastic banana-shaped boxes, but getting one the correct radius would be a worry for me.

Is this not what the back pockets of jerseys are for?

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

I don't usually take bananas on a ride, if I do I'll find a bin for the skin or take it away with me.
Don't know why, because at home it goes in the compost bin, so should be ok to leave it in a hedge.
Interesting link here, it says that banana skins can be fed to cows, goats and pigs and it's good for them.

There is your answer there.
Chuck it to the livestock,job done.
Everybody win,Everybody happy.

 

[Accy cyclist]

On the subject of bananas, did any of you have one of these?

The girl next door had one in the early 1980's

 

[Markymark]

The empties are used to practice juggling skiils by my nouveau riche juggling troope and the lobster shells are flambe'd with Remy Martin Black Pearl Louis XIII before being poached in a Krug '96 to make stock for the next bisque....what do you do with yours?

Throw them at peasants, or what you do, obviously.

 

[subaqua]

oo..I bet times were hard when you was a kid...casually eyeing the gutters for tab ends with more than a half inch left......and lipstick on the filter, cos you didn't want to be smoking a bloke's tab

there was a rumour when I was a kid that dried banana skins when smoked got you high.

 

[sackville d]

I like to toss them over a wall then wait for a herd of cattle to come along and watch them take turns at slipping on it and falling over. Oh the humanity.

 

[jefmcg]

Of course it depends where you are. In the city, you should find a bin. On a pristine mountain top, carry it out with you (even nutritious garbage can be harmful in fragile ecosystems and is an eyesore). On a rural road, with nitrate fertilisers, poisons, diesel particulates, fences, farm machinery, plastic litter etc etc just fling it out of harms way; it will quietly rot causing no harm.

 

[Glow worm]

I bring all my apple cores/ banana skins home for the green bin to enjoy. Lobbing anything into hedges / verges just doesn't seem right to me, no matter what it is.