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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!
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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.
pacerc200 - Member
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..?
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