How do you dispose of a banana skin?

[Pale Rider]

This important question cropped up on my recent ride with @Rickshaw Phil.

Neither of us are too keen on throwing the skin into a hedge.

But we both agreed there is no rational reason not to - it's organic matter and will decompose just like an apple core.

I have thrown a banana skin into a hedge, deep in the countryside, when on my own and unobserved.

The feeling of guilt afterwards wasn't worth it.

I put the skin of the banana I had with Phil in a nearby litter bin, so it will probably end up as landfill.

What are your thoughts on this important question?

 

[vickster]

In a bin, Then it can rot acceptably in landfill

 

[Scoosh]

Just give it to Phil and he can put it in with his garden compost ...

 

[steveindenmark]

I donate mine to the countryside.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I donate mine to the countryside.

Same here. There was a discussion on here a while ago, I chucked one onto the flower bed in my garden to see what would happen, it disappeared completely within a few days.

 

[si_c]

Hedgerow. Same place I put my Apple cores. All non organic stuff I take home or dispose of in an otherwise proper manner.

 

[jonny jeez]

Hedge...no brainer

 

[Markymark]

Throw it at the nearest peasant I see. Or in a bush.

 

[mythste]

Depends how close the rider behind me is. Things can get a little Mario when I get excited.

 

[Keith Oates]

Don't forget to eat the Banana first before throwing the skin away

 

[Globalti]

Straight in the hedge. It's not as if they contain an essential oil that makes them waterproof and keeps them fresh for weeks, like the orange peel that idiots leave on mountain tops.

 

[Racing roadkill]

'Accidentally' fumble the banana when you've just about done. It falls in the road, and it was an 'accident'.

 

[Brandane]

Lob it out of the car window onto the road.



Of course I jest; keep yer hair on! It goes out the passenger side into the hedge.

 

[Tin Pot]

I read somewhere it takes ages for banana skins to decompose, so bin/food recycle.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Two years according to the John Muir Trust, at least up a 1,000m+ mountain.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland