A biodegradable rubbish question?

[Darran]

Our luxury bungalow backs on to a woods with a river running through it.
Just about everyday of my life when I eat an apple or a banana or something similar I throw the banana skin,apple stump straight into the woods,I sometimes even throw egg shells in there as well.
My wife tells me I’m doing it wrong and they should go in the recycling bin?

Who’s right?

 

[J_B]

She is right obviously.

You can be prosecuted for littering even with apple cores etc.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Food waste recycling obviously. What you’re doing is chavvy and antisocial.

 

[Pacemaker]

Bananas take an absolute age to break down as well as agreeing with everything stated above.

Your wife is obviously heading for a sainthood the amount she has to put up with.

A load of rot: how long your litter takes to biodegrade

Paper bag - 1 month

Apple core - 8 weeks

Orange peel and banana skins - 2 years

Cigarette end - 18 months to 500 years

Plastic bag - 10 to 20 years

A plastic bottle - 450 years

Chewing gum - 1 million years

From Keep Britain Tidy (keepbritaintidy,org)

 

[Pacemaker]

Food waste recycling obviously. What you’re doing is chavvy and antisocial.

That’s why he had to move from middle Baglan, there are still people slipping on his shit even now.

 

[airedale]

The bloke from Snowdon on my telly said they don’t like the punters discarding banana skins, because they take too long to disappear.

 

[Darran]

Food waste recycling obviously. What you’re doing is chavvy and antisocial.

That’s why he had to move from middle Baglan, there are still people slipping on his shit even now.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[BLAZE]

What with the invasive plant species he introduced to his garden a few years back and now his admission of fly tipping I can see Prosser being a right nightmare neighbour

 

[exiledclaseboy]

What with the invasive plant species he introduced to his garden a few years back and now his admission of fly tipping I can see Prosser being a right nightmare neighbour

Bet he chucks nappies down the drains too, blocking them all the time.

 

[Darran]

What with the invasive plant species he introduced to his garden a few years back and now his admission of fly tipping I can see Prosser being a right nightmare neighbour

Bet he chucks nappies down the drains too, blocking them all the time.

You’re confusing me with Oldjack.

 

[Darran]

What with the invasive plant species he introduced to his garden a few years back and now his admission of fly tipping I can see Prosser being a right nightmare neighbour

Haha Hawkweed. I poured so much bleach and weed over the piece of ground where it was it’s completely gone.

 

[Itchysphincter]

You might be encouraging rats, but it may also provide a food source for other animals.

I don’t quite get the food recycling thing though. I’m happy to do it and do so religiously, mainly because it’s clean waste disposal but how is it recycled? Our council insists it it all goes in together so raw and cooked. How can that be recycled?