Day: August 5, 2020💾

Some folks seem to assume that fruits and vegetables left outside will shrivel, turn black, and disintegrate in a matter of hours, like a time-lapse video from middle school biology. In fact, an apple core can take two months to decompose; a banana skin or orange peel, two years, leaving plenty of time for animals who shouldn’t eat it to come along and eat it. Plus, while nature does its thing, that trash—and let’s not mince words, that’s what it is—is an eyesore. It’s also a visual cue to other passers-by that tossing their own trash isn’t a big deal. In other words: Litter begets litter.

While tissues and toilet paper are more of an annoyance to me, if you have a banana peel or apple core, at least bury it or toss it somewhere it's not going to cause a nuisance. But even so, it's probably not a great idea, as you are feeding wild beasts, although I guess it's better then it sitting in a landfill for a million years, the preferred solution of the urbanite.