Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 31, 2023

Banana skins hang around a lot longer than you’d think.

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That’s been the Tasmanian devils’ major problem too. They go after the road kill and get hit themselves.

Then there are the scavengers eating the scavengers that were eating ….

First, throwing things from a moving vehicle is distracting to other drivers. Second, it’s gross, Third, most bananas sold in the US have so much pesticide residue that they warn not to compost them.

I’m more concerned about someone peeling and eating a banana while driving.

Who is eating lots of bananas in a car?

So then it should also be okay to (pick up and) throw scavengers that have gotten run over out your window.

depends on where ya throw the peel.

Like many kids – the grungier the story the more fun.

Banana peels, orange peels, etc. So manytake a long long time to decompose. So IMNSHO they are trash and litter. LNT (Leave No Trace). Thanks once again Jef—great comic, great message, and great art.

So make sure to throw them in the grass next to the road. Win-win.

Orange peels along the trail…grrrrr!

It’s elitist of you to expect me to properly dispose of trash. Nature is my refuse bin!

Throw them into the weeds or shrubs off the side of the road, not on the pavement.

Not in Texas. The only thing that can be thrown out the window is water.

Banana peels are still an eyesore until they decompose and they’re a breeding ground for more flies.

To add to the great many articles and scolds that will tell you at great length why this is a bad idea:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/decompose-hiking-camping-parks-canada-compost-environment-1.5294706

Here in Arizona I maintain two large compost piles of combinations of some plant clippings, dried coffee grounds used as chicken coop bedding/“chicky litter”, chicken manure, wood chips, and some produce waste (peels, etc.). The mother-in-law persists in tossing orange peels and banana peels and pineapple cuttings in the one pile. Even with watering down the piles, I’ve pulled them up a year or two later still intact but mummified, with NO discernible decomposition.

I never could understand way people can’t just leave their trash in the vehicle until they get somewhere to dispose of it proper. I live down a dirt side road and the thing I find most are empty beer cans and fast food wrappers.