Before you throw your banana skin into the trees....

Ben Nevis walkers have been asked not to throw banana skins on the mountain as they are effectively litter. They have been doing litter picks and banana skins are a real problem for them. Anyway, in the same article they posted how long it takes something to degrade:

• Banana skins/orange peels - two years
• Cigarette butts - 12 years
• Plastic carrier bags - 10 to 1,000 years
• Plastic bottles - 500 years
• Crisp packets - 80 years
• Tissues - A month

I've seen many a golfer throw banana skins into the rough, trees etc, I've chucked the odd apple core in the past although no longer. Something to ponder.