Banana skins

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

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 really

But 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.

I’ve seen plenty of bikes dumped in the countryside.

Have a banana.

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.

GlitterGary – Member
I’ve seen plenty of bikes dumped in the countryside.

Was the local wildlife feasting on them??

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..

What about discarding TEA BAGS ?

Tea bags?

does your camelbak look like this;

No, there isn’t a cheeseboard in that pic.

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

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.

bananas will grow in dorset. is it ok to discard them there?

i love a lunchbreak rant reading session

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 😆

Is horse shit still OK if the horses have been eating bananas?

What if it’s a genetically modified horse?

Or banana?

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….)

(Bogles)

And the solution….

TandemJeremy – Member

So popular spots become littered with banana skins in the process of degrading.

I am astounded you guys cannot see this.

I literally cannot see this. Very occasionally you see a banana skin left right beside a shelter or popular stopping spot, but not the heaps that you suggest. Assuming you use the regulation “chuck it as far as you can in a random direction” approach then the density of banana skins even in the most popular spots will be low.

Fact is this is an island already shaped by man. If anyone’s going to tell me off for altering the nature of a planted forest or field, or deforested sheep-infested hillside, I’m not going to take them very seriously at all.

I throw my banana skins into bushes, but not because I don’t want them ending up on a landfill or because they will just decompose quickly and return into the earth. I do it because I can’t be bothered to take them home.

Two Four Six Eight….

I do it because I can’t be bothered to take them home.

😆

I regularly do this with old car batteries, fridges and sofas.

Well, saves cluttering up my pokkits.

As soon as a place looks littered it attracts more litter, so I always ensure banana skins are well hidden and decompose un-noticed.

Probably best just to landfill everything and to be on the safe side wrap it in a plastic carrier bag . . . . or 2.

Just in case like. Wouldn’t want to cause any environmental disasters.

😯

“I regularly do this with old car batteries, fridges and sofas.Well, saves cluttering up my pokkits”

I`m not too keen on visiting the local shop and accepting plastic bags every visit.Most of the time its 3 or 4 items.. so yeah,you will often see me with a Frijj in my pocket.

Tonight I urinated by two tunnels.

Am I a bad person?

Lurid.