To throw an apple core onto the grass verge?

[Kasterborous]

I ate an apple while taking DD to playgroup this morning. I threw the core onto this big grass verge that is unkempt anyway. I've always thought it was ok to do this with apple cores as they rot. I never throw any litter away always put it in the bin or take it home. I always pick my dogs poo up, and wouldn't throw an apple core on someone's lawn.

But there was someone behind me who called me a litter lout mumbled under their breath in passing so was I being unreasonable or not?

Apple core or crisp packet. It doesn't matter what it is. It still looks like shit to passers by. It's litter. It encourages other litter. It is absolutely 100% wrong to throw anything on the ground. I absolutely hate littering. There is currently an apple core in my back alley. It is crawling with ants.

Please don't do this again. It's disgusting.

I've eatne apple pips and I'm here to tell of my ordeal.

Yanbu - fOod for birds

Too much - but an apple core in your back alley sounds most unnacceptable

ofgs its an apple core not a chip paper or a plastic bottle, I know what I would rather see. Birds love them. Don't deny the great tits!

Hmm, depends how wildish the verge is I guess.

get your children (yourselves too) to collect seeds from plants and grasses,(run hand up stem) even dandelions are good, when you have loads mix in a bucket with soil,any garden clay and water, make mug balls, dry them out on trays, in the sun on a window sill, keep in the car and bomb any boring looking verge you come across,

anything that adds diversity to the plant life will help the bees and the butterflies, which helps us,

if you look up bee and butterfly friendly plants, you will know which seeds help most, but it is not hard to collect them for free,

my children love the bombing part of guerrilla gardening.

www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Seed-Bomb

storify.com/winningspinning/guerrilla-gardening-beautifying-the-planet-one-see

wordpress.theinadvertentgardener.com/2006/05/20/seed-bomb/

all of my neighbours kindly shake their poppy heads into envelopes for us, we add these to mix, it is immensely satisfying for children to see a streak of colour when they go past a spot which they seed bombed.

apple cores are fine to chuck into greenery.

It is perfectly fine to chuck an apple core into a hedegerow, grassy area etc. The birds and the furry critters will eat them, and if by chance they don't it will decompose and nourish the earth,

Anyone who compares an apple core to a crisp packet is a bit dim.

Doesn't food rotting in landfill create greenhouse gasses? I'd say it was better off on the verge.

Interesting link soontobe, but how do they know plastic bottles will last 450 years, when they've only been around 60 years or so ?

ha cumfy - no idea, some reverse kind of carbon dating maybe?

I feed the birds in my garden - i'd rather not see peoples half eaten food on the side of the road - to me it is litter just the same.

We also recycle food in this area so it shouldn't go to land fill either.

Apple cores, half eaten sandwiches, old chips - where exactly do we draw the line on what food it is acceptable to leave lying in our towns and cities? I am sure that those in the countryside don't want their footpaths and verges covered in food either.

I have always drummed it into the kids that anything that the birds/critters will eat can be thrown into the hedgerows when out of built up areas, if it will rot down.

Possibly not in an urban area though, YANBU in principle......we use the outside the 30 MPH boundary as a rough rule.

I've thrown apple cores in hedges in the countryside on the logic that they are an appropriate part of the eco-system (never took long for windfalls to break down). The grass verge is a bit obvious, especially if it's well kept. Orange and banana peels take too long to break down.

Compared to the rest of the litter that congregates in the hedge outside my house and apple core is inoffensive, and at least I wouldn't have to clear it out to dispose of with the bottles and crisp packets (and the amazing migratory properties of McDonalds packaging!)

Guerrilla gardening-fantastic idea quoteunquote

Do people get this upset about apples that have fallen off trees?
It may take 2 months to decompose but I guarantee if yiu go back in 48h it wont be there?
I woldnt throw onto a neatly mown lawn but general scruffy hedgerow or out of the way definitely.
And pips are poisonous?! Where do you think apples come from - a factory via tesco?

A story for those that like Guerrilla gardening. You might also like Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books. Removes geek hat

The problem in built up areas is that litter encourages more litter and too many people go past each day for the quantity to be manageable. Plus if an apple tree grows in a hedgerow then it becomes part of that hedgerow, and the natural environment. A grass verge, which is mown in most places is a different matter.

Stealth there are plenty of natural poisonous things that people shouldn't eat. Deadly nightshade is natural...

I forage, so chucking apple cores is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Im sure mrsh but I dont see how a discarded apple core is any more or less dangerous than the thosands of apples growing on trees! Was my point.

I thought the comment about pips being poisonous was in response to a suggestion that people should eat them, not that they shouldn't be thrown in a country hedgerow.

Ah maybe worry

Sorry
Not worry
Thought the message was "don't poison the birds"
:-)

I have thrown into hedge where it could not be seen or trodden on. Will desist now that I know the stupid law on this.

Oh yes and if you ever pick a dandelion make sure to dispose of it properly.
So can people with apple trees whose branches extend over public land be done for littering? What about leaves? Come autumn those community police officers must be run off their feet.

Wow, I am super anti-litter (have been known to pick other people's litter up!) but would throw an apple core under a hedge or something happily.

me too
:-)