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What is acceptable an acceptable disposal method of a banana peel on a ride?

Find a bin, take it home or bury it if you're in the bush. Never acceptable to toss it.

Today I seen a rider throw into a drain. Where does that stand ?

Really probably makes little impact on the environment. Gets washed out into a creek, decomposes in the stream, feeds the fishes and frogs.

Not worth stressing over at all. Banana peel breaks down very quickly.

I'll admit to being a bit of a litter nazi (I even pocket my cigarette butts if no bin is around), but I see no issue with tossing organic stuff, location depending. As il padrone says, little environmental impact to worry about, but dropping it in the middle of the bike path for example would certainly bother me.

Dent.

Bin it or take it home with a wee plastic bag tucked in your top.

Chuck it into the shrubbery. I ride highways, so there is always plenty of bush. I'm not talking urban here.
BTW, I don't see "pocketing a cigarette butt if there is no bin around" as extraordinary. I see it as minimum standard.

If there's a bin, sure I'll use it. If not, I'll throw it somewhere that wouldn't be deemed 'messy' by locals or other road users.

It's biodegradable, we aren't talking plastic gel wrappers here!

I never put them on the road or Mario's kart will spin out.



Seriously though... they're biodegradable, we aren't talking plastic gel wrappers here. If there's a bin, sure I'll use it. If not, I'll throw it somewhere that wouldn't be deemed 'messy' by locals or other road users.

toss it in discrete location (i.e. in bushes on country roadside, not city roads), bin it, or stuff it in back pocket.

i throw it so it lands on a flight of stairs.

BTW, I don't see "pocketing a cigarette butt if there is no bin around" as extraordinary. I see it as minimum standard.

Yet so few smokers bother, even if a suitable receptacle is around. Before my work moved we had a "smokers corner" complete with ashtray, yet the ground nearby was always littered with butts. Pissed me off no end.

Dent.

I usually try to hang it on the back of my mate's saddle.

Mulger bill wrote:Find a bin, take it home or bury it if you're in the bush. Never acceptable to toss it.

I am with Mulger Bill. It is actually is not suitable "food" for native animals and they actually take quite a while to break down. Citrus fruit is even worse.

Andrew

Aushiker wrote: I am with Mulger Bill. It is actually is not suitable "food" for native animals and they actually take quite a while to break down. Citrus fruit is even worse.

but neither are fallen branches or dirt - i would have assumed animals have some means of disciminating between suitable and unsuitable foods. i could be wrong.

jules21 wrote:

Aushiker wrote: I am with Mulger Bill. It is actually is not suitable "food" for native animals and they actually take quite a while to break down. Citrus fruit is even worse.

but neither are fallen branches or dirt - i would have assumed animals have some means of disciminating between suitable and unsuitable foods. i could be wrong.

Have you been to your local park lately and seen what happens with the ducks (we have signs up at some parks explaining why you shouldn't feed them). There are signs at Lake Monger for example explaining why you shouldn't do what this bloke is doing with his daughter (I assume it his daughter)



or visited a campsite and seen what happens? This guy was hanging around at Martins Tank Campsite for a reason ...



Andrew

I save them for abusive joggers.

Or toss them at the base of a tree.

Throwing them in a a bin is such a waste.

Livetoride wrote:Bin it or take it home with a wee plastic bag tucked in your top.

what do you do with the plastic bag you put your banana peel in?

Say What really...

does this happen to anyone else when they eat bananas?

no, i get that when i drink too much coffee or tea.

Livetoride wrote:Bin it or take it home with a wee plastic bag tucked in your top.

I like the wee plastic bag idea.

Livetoride wrote:Bin it or take it home with a wee plastic bag tucked in your top.

I don't usually use plastic bags for that

Save it, dry it out and smoke it?

il padrone wrote:

Livetoride wrote:Bin it or take it home with a wee plastic bag tucked in your top.

I don't usually use plastic bags for that

Well I hate the banana in my top on a hot day, its not very nice. Also I am not one to want to stop in the middle of my ride to find a bin. So fan of the bag idea. Also I was berated one time for not taking out the peel of my top and putting in the wash.