"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
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A friend told me recently that you shouldn't put banana skins into the
compost box, as they take many years to degrade. Was he correct
please? We've been including them for a long time and I'm sure we've
not seen any recognisable ex-bananas in our resultant compost.

[Compostible? Compostable? My OED doesn't tell me.]

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

We don't eat many bananas but their skins are certainly composted. If you
keep a banana skin it will very quickly go dark and shrivelled. If you keep
it moist I bet you'll find that it degrades quickly too.

Not worth doing though, it's faster in the compost.

Mary