How do you dispose of a banana skin?

[Pat "5mph"]

Any good for chickens??

Apparently makes them lose weight!

 

[Pale Rider]

Apparently makes them lose weight!

That's no good, I like a nice, plump bird.

 

[hopless500]

Apparently makes them lose weight!

Oh. Not so good then.

 

[Domus]

Take all litter home - simple. Can't understand people who can carry a full banana but not an empty one.

 

[Brandane]

Take all litter home - simple. Can't understand people who can carry a full banana but not an empty one.

A full one doesn't leave a slimy mess in your pocket/saddle pack.

 

[Dec66]

Chuck it at the nearest narrowboat as I tear down the towpath trying to beat my Strava best, scattering dogs and their owners, as well as drunken narrowboaters, as I do so.**











** all "tongue in cheek", obviously

 

[Accy cyclist]

This is the trouble with club rides. There's always one who'll frown at you for throwing your banana skin into a field or dropping it on the road. Where if you ride alone you don't have that problem. There's a fellow rider who's mentioned my banana skin disposal methods on a few occasions to the other riders. I've noticed he sits behind me in the group now, probably waiting for me to lob my skin, so he can grass me up to the others. I tend to put them in my back pocket now when he's about then throw them in a field when the group has split up. I'm not being untidy as i think banana skins and apple cores are food to some insects which keeps the food chain going. If you bin them you're denying some little creature a meal.

 

[rovers1875]

If you can mange to carry them when they are full and heavy, then why can you not manage to carry them home when they are empty? Sorry but litter is litter it does not matter if it's a can, a wrapper of some sort of decomposable matter. If you brought it with you then take it home or dispose of it correctly.

 

[EasyPeez]

In a bin, Then it can rot acceptably in landfill

Not sure if this is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but what a strange animal the human is, that we think of burying food to rot in a way that causes great damage to the planet and hence the future survival of our own species as 'acceptable'. A banana skin rotting outdoors nourishes the soil as it breaks down (ask anyone who grows tomatoes) and/or provides food for wildlife, but this is, by inference, unacceptable somehow. Bonkers aren't we?!

If you brought it with you then take it home or dispose of it correctly

What constitutes "correctly" though? Correct in terms of the type of disposal which adheres to legislation? Or correct in terms of the form of disposal which is most natural and in the best interests of the environment? I'm more concerned by the latter than the former so choose to discreetly deposit mine out of sight outdoors

 

[slowmotion]

@vernon just listlessly hands it to Fenton. He divides it amongst the poor on The Estate.

 

[Fab Foodie]

@vernon just listlessly hands it to Fenton. He divides it amongst the poor on The Estate.

... and they chuck it in the hedgerow ....

 

[subaqua]

Take home, dry in oven , crumble into fag paper , roll up and smoke

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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.

 

[Andy_R]

What do you guys do with the empty bottles of champagne and the lobster shells?

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?

 

[Andy_R]

Take home, dry in oven , crumble into fag paper , roll up and smoke

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