So where do you draw the line then?
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Banana skins
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oh shit i've been saving mine especially to dump on the mountainside
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Hardly earth shattering is it?
Even if it was, it's not a problem that's going to be solved by composting it at home or putting it in to landfill rather than disposing of it while you're out and about.
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I can feel the Edinburgh defence being prepared
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Read the post about pish
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If I see an energy bar wrapper I pick it up and take it home.
If I see a banana skin I might flick it in the hedge, I porbably wouldn't.
Am I going to hell?
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TEEEEJJJ moaner
take a long tome to degrade and attract vermin.
War and peace acceptable?Posted 8 months ago # -
We shouldn't really be eating bananas in the first place, should we?
Shipped over 1000's of miles, they probably do more damage from the delivery process, than chucking the skin into the undergrowth in the depths of Thetford Forest.Most countryside has already been massively affected by human intervention anyway. If left to it's own devices, it wouldn't look anything like it does.
Everything we do has an impact - planting some crops, building a trail centre, digging a ditch, diverting a watercourse.COMMON SENSE should allow us as human beings to work out whether it is acceptable to discard a fruit skin in a certain location without turning into eco-vandals.
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Day off or late shift today TJ??
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We shouldn't really be eating bananas in the first place, should we?
Shipped over 1000's of milesbit like buying bicycles really
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Hypothetical imperatives compel actions in given circumstances:* if I wish to quench my thirst, I must drink something;
* if I wish to acquire knowledge, I must learn.A categorical imperative, on the other hand, denotes an absolute, unconditional requirement that asserts its authority in all circumstances, both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
You see the enetire world in the later form most of us see it in the former
So for example thoiugh shall not kill...well I agree with it but in self defence I would so it is not categorical
TBH it is quite hard to think of categoricals that apply all the time for most of us TJHow far are the attracted vermin commuting for this snack? They are there allready and tbh if it attracted vermin it would decompose quicker would it not
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stumpy01 - Member
We shouldn't really be eating bananas in the first place, should we?
Shipped over 1000's of miles, they probably do more damage from the delivery process, than chucking the skin into the undergrowth in the depths of Thetford Forest.Most countryside has already been massively affected by human intervention anyway. If left to it's own devices, it wouldn't look anything like it does.
Everything we do has an impact - planting some crops, building a trail centre, digging a ditch, diverting a watercourse.COMMON SENSE should allow us as human beings to work out whether it is acceptable to discard a fruit skin in a certain location without turning into eco-vandals.
Amen...
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TJ I'm with you all the way on this. It's depressing to read that we share the country with those that don't really care for it. Our beautiful country is just a play area for many who have absolutely no respect for it and it's future.
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How far are the attracted vermin commuting for this snack? They are there allready and tbh if it attracted vermin it would decompose quicker would it not
Yes, but in TJWorld, the vermin will know IN ADVANCE that the banana skin will be discarded, so will begin breeding in advance to take advantage of this bounty. Then, because all cruelty is cruelty, whether that be to a fluffy bunny or a rat, not continuing to feed them is cruel, and next thing the whole area will be covered in static caravans.Posted 8 months ago # -
Our beautiful country is just a play area for many who have absolutely no respect for it and it's future.
thats BS we do, we just view letting something rot as aceptable in certain circumstances.Posted 8 months ago # -
I need some advice.
If I go wild camping for a few days, is it better to take 5-10 (depending on your anticipated dump rate) small turd sized plastic bags so they can be individually sealed, or one large bag eg. nice and strong garden refuse type, which can be opened and used as required?
The large bag obviously has the advantage of allowing 'direct' use and negates the need for post poo pick-up. Disadvantages are fairly self evident but principally centre around opening and releasing vapours when used and carrying around a large sack of shit which will not fit easily into a rucksack. Small bags can obviously be distributed around the myriad of zipped pockets found on most modern rucksacks.
Advice appreciated
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uplink - Member
We shouldn't really be eating bananas in the first place, should we?
Shipped over 1000's of miles
bit like buying bicycles reallyBut bikes don't have skins, aren't edible and aren't GENERALLY disposed of around the country leading to an ecological disaster.
ACTUALLY, I found an edible bike.
No idea about its carbon footprint though, or whether it would cause an ecological disaster if dumped in the Cairngorns.
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I've seen plenty of bikes dumped in the countryside.
Have a banana.
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If banana skins are so bad for the local environment as they're 'not from round here' why on earth would anyone want to put them in the compost? Surely if it's going to ruin the local soil it'll do that to people's gardens too? My dad's compost bin has had plenty of banana skins from when they moved into the house (35 years) and it doesn't seem to have done any harm so how could the odd one here and there damage the soil?
I completely agree that littering is wrong but can't see the argument that the remains of any fruit thrown out of sight in the bushes can do anything but help the local environment. Really don't consider that to be littering.
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GlitterGary - Member
I've seen plenty of bikes dumped in the countryside.Was the local wildlife feasting on them??
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MrsBouys family own a farm ooop North like, they've moocows and baasheeps dontchaknow.. Thay've a couple of footpaths that cross the Land (notice "the" Land not "thier" land, hahaha) and they hate it when walkertypes throw Narnas at the moocows. Seems something rather horrid happens when moocows eat said skins, poor moocows get all sicklike.
So last week we forraged a load of Apples and duely trimmed all the skins off to make Pies (hmmm Pies) and when they placed all the peel into bags ready to throw it away, in t'bin, I asked "why not feed it to the moocows?" [with a rather confused look] again seems like moocows have a dickytummy when chomping on Apple too..So, not all natural stuff grownlike can/is eaten by animala. This is news to me as I thought (rather ignorantlike) that animal will indeed eat anything placed in front of them..
Shame they don;t have oinkpigs I said..
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What about discarding TEA BAGS ?
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Tea bags?
does your camelbak look like this;
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No, there isn't a cheeseboard in that pic.
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Well my source of all knowledge 'Google' reckons 3-5 weeks.
I'll keep on chuckin em in the bush.
Plus the mrs would kill me if our garden was over pottassium'd
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The John Muir Trust said the skins could take up to two years to biodegrade in the cold temperatures on Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands.
They disappear pretty damn quick in a southern compost bin. Pretty much gone by the time the kitchen one gets emptied. Now Avocado stones take a bit longer.
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bananas will grow in dorset. is it ok to discard them there?
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i love a lunchbreak rant reading session
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TJ - so if it's ok for me to have a dump in the toilet at home I can have a dump in the yoghurt aisle at Sainsburys?
pmsl
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Is horse shit still OK if the horses have been eating bananas?
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What if it's a genetically modified horse?
Or banana?
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As a result of this thread, I now plan to visit the Cairngorms, with a rucksack full of bananas, just so's I can throw the skins all over the place.
(Wonders what sort of fossil-fuel-guzzling-planet-raping-polluting-environmentally-damaging vehicles most folk use to actually get anywhere near such an ecologically fragile environment....)
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