"What you bring on your ride needs to go home with you."

[landsurfer]

Do you selectively litter when out on a ride ?
Do you fling banana skins and apple cores over hedges as you whizz along ?
I have a history as a banana skin flinger.
I've just read some comments on a blog response on the ROAD.CC web site, we throw banana skins, our self justification being that they are biodegradable, but so are poo filled nappies and we would be very unhappy if a passing car ejected one of them over a hedge along our route.
It's made me stop and think...
"What you bring on your ride needs to go home with you."

[simonhill]

In England (or similar) I happily throw apple cores into hedges, etc., but never on the road or cut verge.

My justification is that they are food for small hedgerow animals and if they don't want them they will biodegrade. Interestingly, I am seeing plenty of wayside apple trees in recent years, presumably from discarded apple cores.

i wouldn't throw banana skins or orange peel or anything exotic. This is for a number of reasons: because they are exotic; because they are not food; and because they don't readily break down.

Worst of all are energy gel type sachets for which there can be no excuse as they will never break down. Pure litter.

[Cyril Haearn]

I often get home with more rubbish than I started with, I tidy up like a womble

I think discarding apple cores is ok, one can crush them so they are easier to eat

[Wanlock Dod]

...our self justification being that they are biodegradable, but so are poo filled nappies...

A biodegradable nappy could take up to 50 years to decompose, say waste experts.

[st599_uk]

Banana skins take 2 years to biodegrade.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-scotland

[st599_uk]

Not sure if orange peel is similar.

[Cyril Haearn]

Banana skins take 2 years to biodegrade.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-scotland

Quote to your signature (source?)
..
Prefab Sprout: 'Guess this world needs it's dreamers, may they never wake up'

[reohn2]

I never leave anything but wheel tracks,disgarded banana skins eaten by sheep can harm them as they can't digest them.
I never throw an apple core away because I always eat the whole apple.
I often see all kinds of litter including dog poo bags hanging from trees and disgarded inner tubes etc.The human race are a filthy species,it never fails to amaze me what people simply leave by the side of the road in the most beautiful parts of the country,from couches and beds to today's lunch Mac litter.

[whoof]

On most rides I leave some wee. If I wild camp I sometimes leave some buried poo, I also take a carrier bag and fill it with people's rubbish which I then bin.

[1982john]

Do you selectively litter when out on a ride ?
Do you fling banana skins and apple cores over hedges as you whizz along ?
I have a history as a banana skin flinger.
I've just read some comments on a blog response on the ROAD.CC web site, we throw banana skins, our self justification being that they are biodegradable, but so are poo filled nappies and we would be very unhappy if a passing car ejected one of them over a hedge along our route.
It's made me stop and think...
"What you bring on your ride needs to go home with you."

I agree with you here. It's why I think pro cycling needs to sort out its image - in that it likes to present itself as a 'green sport' compared to say F1. After following the tour of Britain the next day on the route there was loads of single use plastic fanfare bumpf lying around. And on the Tour you often see pros chucking all kinds of stuff over mountain tops.

[Cyril Haearn]

Do you selectively litter when out on a ride ?
Do you fling banana skins and apple cores over hedges as you whizz along ?
I have a history as a banana skin flinger.
I've just read some comments on a blog response on the ROAD.CC web site, we throw banana skins, our self justification being that they are biodegradable, but so are poo filled nappies and we would be very unhappy if a passing car ejected one of them over a hedge along our route.
It's made me stop and think...
"What you bring on your ride needs to go home with you."

I agree with you here. It's why I think pro cycling needs to sort out its image - in that it likes to present itself as a 'green sport' compared to say F1. After following the tour of Britain the next day on the route there was loads of single use plastic fanfare bumpf lying around. And on the Tour you often see pros chucking all kinds of stuff over mountain tops.

Green sport?
The TdF has a huge cavalcade of vehicles on public roads
Maybe the race could be abolished now that GT has won it for Wales

[st599_uk]

Banana skins take 2 years to biodegrade.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-scotland

Quote to your signature (source?)
..
Prefab Sprout: 'Guess this world needs it's dreamers, may they never wake up'

My phone adds an annoying advert one, which I keep failing to remove properly. (Hence my post split in two).

My computer adds a quote from TE Lawrence.

[eileithyia]

We often clear up some discarded wrappers on Mallorcan pass tops....
I have (since the beginning of this year) regularly collect rubbish when out walking around local town and regularly clear up our local street.

[Sweep]

Banana skins take 2 years to biodegrade.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-scotland

Isn't that good enough if it is in a hedge? Hardly likely that lots of cyclists are going to choose the same hedge. I despise litter louts, some of them cyclists I am sad to say, but don't worry about fruit debris.

Oh. Re the point upthread, orange peel is edible. I have been known to eat it.

[gbnz]

Banana skins take 2 years to biodegrade.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... s-scotland

Isn't that good enough if it is in a hedge?

No. It'd somewhat detract from a ride to have banana skins hanging from the hedge, or curled around it's base