US park rangers debunk myth on tossing banana peels, apple cores

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A banana skin can take two years to degrade while an apple core can take eight weeks.

Next time you toss a banana peel or apple core on the ground believing you're feeding nature, you may want to think twice.

"These 'natural' food items will not decompose quickly," the rangers said in a Facebook post shared at least 50,000 times by Friday."If animals don't eat the food waste, decomposition will likely take much longer than you expect.A banana skin, for example, can take two years to degrade while an apple core can take eight weeks.

 

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