A rotting sheep’s carcass can contaminate a water source. Lots of sheep die up in the hills. Sheep skeletons litter some areas. Most of the varieties of sheep aren’t indigenous, and their existence in certain areas has had negative impact on the local ecosystem.

Plenty more things to worry about than fruit peel.

Now I know you’re just trolling and being facetious, but I think we all can tell that there are very few, if any, pristine areas of the UK. If, as you ably demonstrate above, you’re too dumb to work out that carrying home your litter is the right thing to do, then might I suggest you stay away from the countryside.

Cheers

A rotting sheep’s carcass can contaminate a water source. Lots of sheep die up in the hills. Sheep skeletons litter some areas. Most of the varieties of sheep aren’t indigenous, and their existence in certain areas has had negative impact on the local ecosystem.

Plenty more things to worry about than fruit peel.

i don’t own or care for any sheep, but i do eat bananas, I can easily do something about the disposal of my banana skins. Dealing with other peoples rotting sheep I find more difficult.

When i was at school we used to chuck banana skins at a tree to see who could make them hang on the highest branch…i realise now doing that was a bit of a **** thing to do but they never lasted anything like 2 years!

Yeah, but have you seen how unsightly most mtbers are to look at.

How long does it take them to biodegrade?

You could always put your name down;

http://video.nationalgeographic.co.uk/video/science/health-human-body-sci/human-body/body-farm-sci/

Think the lycra would take the longest to decompose 😉

Now I know you’re just trolling and being facetious, but I think we all can tell that there are very few, if any, pristine areas of the UK. If, as you ably demonstrate above, you’re too dumb to work out that carrying home your litter is the right thing to do, then might I suggest you stay away from the countryside.

Is there really any need for such rudeness? Simple fact is that people dropping the odd fruit peel/skin is totally inconsequential compared to the damage caused by other Human behaviour, which is rarely addressed. Such as building roads, car parks, cafes and various other facilities so that people can ‘enjoy’ the countryside. Wasting time discussing the half-life of a banana skin or piece of fruit peel means that other, more important issues don’t get discussed. This reminds me of community meetings up in Northumberland, where people who drive massive 4x4s and use all sorts of chemicals on their land/animals blether on about how terrible it is that the village hall’s doors have been painted an ‘inappropriate’ colour and how this ‘ruins’ the local area.

I take all my litter home with me. I don’t consider the odd banana skin or piece of fruit peel (or any other biodegradable organic matter to be ‘litter’, and dispose of it by throwing it away once I’ve eaten the fruit. And as I’ve seen no evidence presented which proves that dropping such biodegradable matter in the countryside actually creates environmental damage, I’ll continue to do so. Regardless of what some random on an internet forum thinks.

driving to such beauty spots creates far greater environmental damage than throwing away a banana skin .. Yet I imagine not that many would be willing to give up such recreational pleasures. So blethering on about a few banana skins is really just pissing in the wind.

You need to become more “STW” 😀

There is an almost identical issue whereby we unquestioningly spend £15k on a car, £2-£3k on an mtb & associated paraphanalia, £70 on a tank of petrol, drive for hours and hours … then strop like little children when the car park costs a mere £3.50 🙄

You need to become more “STW”

By that, do you mean ‘just focussing on one tiny little aspect/point/issue at a time, and lacking the ability to step back, be more objective and see the bigger picture’? I’d noticed that several people on here seem to suffer from such a condition. I have no desire to become so similarly afflicted, thanks all the same. 😉

Simple fact is that people dropping the odd fruit peel/skin is totally inconsequential compared to the damage caused by other Human behaviour, which is rarely addressed.

I fail to see any reason why these should be mutually exclusive concerns. Why can’t we attempt address both?

I’m going to start dropping crisp packets on the pavement. The environmental impact is inconsequential compared to the traffic next to me, so it doesn’t matter.

There is an almost identical issue whereby we unquestioningly spend £15k on a car, £2-£3k on an mtb & associated paraphanalia, £70 on a tank of petrol, drive for hours and hours … then strop like little children when the car park costs a mere £3.50

Or pay half a grand for a smartphone and balk at paying 69p for an app.

I put mine in a dog poo bag and then hang it from a tree.

I’m going to start dropping crisp packets on the pavement. The environmental impact is inconsequential compared to the traffic next to me, so it doesn’t matter.

Non sequitur. The crisp packet isn’t biodegradable.

So blethering on about a few banana skins is really just pissing in the wind.

Back it up, you can’t leave piss just hanging in the wind. You should take it home with you and dispose of it properly!

😉

Wasting time discussing the half-life of a banana skin or piece of fruit peel means that other, more important issues don’t get discussed.

Where’s your thread discussing more important matters then? Lots of people on this thread just waiting to get their teeth into something more important who will no doubt flock to it.

Come to that, what are you doing wasting your time on this thread?

Where’s your thread discussing more important matters then?

I believe there’s one over there about people off’ve TV you fancy. Does that count?

Basically, it’s possibly a bad habit to leave banana peel in the countryside, but many of us do it and agree that it’s less bad than leaving a Clif bar wrapper in the same spot. Doesn’t make it right, but it’s a choice I’m prepared to take and – until pressed on it – back.

Non sequitur. The crisp packet isn’t biodegradable.

I didn’t say it was, I said…

The environmental impact is inconsequential compared to the traffic next to me,

… which it is.

Can we compromise and just agree to hang them in the trees next to the poo bags.

If you would eat it then fling it, if not it take it home.

I take all my litter home with me.

Good.

But then…

I don’t consider the odd banana skin or piece of fruit peel (or any other biodegradable organic matter to be ‘litter’, and dispose of it by throwing it away once I’ve eaten the fruit.

So you don’t. I’ll tell you what, have a read of the by-laws in any national park about litter. Ask a ranger if it’s OK to just throw things away. I suspect you’ll find a similar answer to “some random on the internet”.

Oh, and I wasn’t being rude – I was succinctly summing up your attitude to the issue.

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If you would eat it then fling it, if not it take it home.

No Take it HOME.

I’ll take great pleasure walking the streets throwing bits of sandwich, apple cores, banana peel etc into peoples gardens from now on.

One lucky garden will get some extra fertilizer….

If it didn’t come from there take it home.

PLEASE PLEASE take them home or put them in the bin, they dont biodegrade, they just go black and hard, we get fed up with clearing them up in the parking area at events. 👿

Been doing it for 30 years in the hills so will continue to do so. To clarify, fleshy bit of banana/orange eat/fling, skin/peel take home

Yes, but here we’re (needlessly) talking about banana skins. Something which will biodegrade. The only argument for not dropping them in the countryside seems to be that they are ‘unsightly’. No evidence as to their actual environmental impact has been presented though.

Seem weird that we’re not even considering the environmental impact of transporting the curvy yellow fellows to blighty from whichever exotic part of the world they happen to come from, yet getting up on high horses about flinging the skins away :-s But this is STW I suppose.

If you would eat it then fling it, if not it take it home.

But I wouldn’t eat celery or asparagus, so therefore I must take them home? And I would eat steak or kebab, so is flinging that into the wild acceptable?

what about the danger to wildlife..?