is it moral to throw away bananas in the forest?

Question

me and my boyfriend were having a walk in the forest today, and we stopped for a while to get a snack. When I finished my banana I put the skin in a plastic bag in my backpack to throw it away later, once we encounter a trash can.

But while my boyfriend was finishing up his banana, he started wondering if it is moral, if it is all right to throw away the banana skin right there in the forest.

At first I thought it was bad, because the banana skin contains pesticides which may not be good for the animals and the forest itself, but my boyfriend mentioned that the bananas were organic and, therefore, they contain no pesticides and are good for the Earth (It is a different story if we can trust "organic" labels on the produce from Columbia).

Also he suggested that this is a natural product, and when, say moneys eat bananas they do not care about recycling them. The waste is kinda fertilizer and is good for forest vegetation.

But I still think that if everyone threw away banana skins in the forest it would be not nice and dirty, and stinky etc. (same with apple waste, pear waste...)

What is a right thing to do?

Jess

Answer 1

Bananas are known to cause diseases among the animals. You definitely don't want to do this because bears will grow up to 4 times their average size and tend to retaliate on the human who litters.

Answer 2

I hope it's okay, because I often take a banana with me as a snack when I'm going somewhere and I always toss the peel out the car window. Not on the freeway, but into the bush at the side of the road, sometimes at the side of my own driveway. A banana peel will rot just like any other vegetable matter, so I don't know why tossing one into a forest would be a problem. Throw it far enough into the bushes that it won't be seen from the trail.

Answer 3

yes absolutely.

banana peels decompose so its actually better to throw them away in a forest.

Answer 4

It's a No and a Yes. Yes they are organic but they take along time to decompose and that's the No part