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How do you re-use banana skins?

July 3, 2009 by  
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Here’s a very useful and innovative site that teaches people how to recycle everything from corn on the cob to swimming caps. Good to know as we tend to covet and then throw away a lot of unapparent treasures that can be re-used in some other shape or form. Share with us interesting items that you’ve recycled.

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About www.Recyclethis.co.uk

This site started from a bowl of pistachio nut shells.

After we gorged ourselves on their lovely innards, they, the shells, just sat there, looking useful and versatile – but we no idea what we could possibly do with them. Just throwing them on the compost heap seemed a waste – all the effort to make them tough and solid, and here we were just hoping they’d rot back down to mulch before the potatoes needed earthing up.

When we thought about it, we were in the same position with lots of things: leftover bits of food, old household items, empty containers of all shapes and sizes…

And so this site was born.

How can I reuse or recycle banana skins?

We’ve covered very, very brown bananas before but I was reading a Mrs Beeton-style book on home management from the 1930s the other day (as you do), and I saw a reference to using banana skins to clean brown leather shoes.

According to the hefty tome (which also includes chapters on engaging servants, etiquette for women and fortune-telling – all essential to the 1930s homemaker), rubbing the inside of a banana skin on brown leather shoes helps feed the leather. A bit of Googling seems to corroborate this and adds that the same idea can also be applied to silverware.

Find out more recycling ideas here.

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  • http://www.mandarinclickbyclick.com/ Mandarin Chinese Online

    Thank you so much for your share.They are so useful,and I learn a lot from them.

  • enma

    Try to recycle anything.

  • Weena

    Grate the inner side of banana skins and apply it on your crack heels or harden knees. It will softer your skin. You may mix it with some honey and lamon juice if you like. ;-)

  • http://nakedgreen.blogspot.com prayitno dulman

    I would try it

  • Theresa L. Pablo

    Thanks so much, i love to eat banana and i was thingking how to preserve the peel after i ate, now i know, its reaaly a great help to our mother Earth

  • anarkilli

    it can be organic manure at the end of all usage, for you plants. Just bury it somewhere near your plants.

  • Yvonne

    I have tried this on my brown (and black leather shoes), it works!
    Thanks!
    And Anarkilli is right, banana skin is a very good fertilizer…

  • Volentred

    Informations like this are really helpful. Thanks so much. I hope infos like this will keep on coming to save our one and only earth. Thanks again. -VOLEN.

  • aminpro

    1 thing that comes to my mind about recycling a banana skin is putting it in the floor and watch someone slip. LOL ! just kidding…..

  • ettevzyl

    I tried to cook it and it taste great and nutritious too!Wanna try banana peel/skin burger? (but there are certain variety that you can cook)

  • http://gbingawi.wordpress.com gbi

    dulu nenek saya suka mengumpulkanya, dan untuk makanan kambingnya..
    My grandmother used to love to collect, and to feed sheep ..

  • krishnamoorthy

    hi,

    just to inform that Currey can be made out of the skin of little ripe bananas with some coconut . it is really delicious and healthy

  • http://bisligcity.com.ph Ms. Charleine

    Any of us had a personal comment, on my side i do appreciate this kind of recycled.. Because it helps also saving our mother nature.

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    wondrrful site. I shall recommend it to maximum of my friends.

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  • Parupkar Singh

    Very fruitful

  • vinay

    well it can also b used as bananna peel / natural facials( mak a paste by addin sme milk n apply aft 5 – 10 min wash wit off)… n feel the differenc

  • hanyouzi

    Well,i will have a try…Never waste.

  • Dwi Kristina

    My father sliced banana peel into small pieces, then mix it with bran that has been mashed smooth, with enough water and make chicken fodder

  • Dwi Kristina

    You can also use banana peels and other garbage into fertilizer “Compost”, by destroying and internalize it in the ground.
    Or it could also be used as bio-gas. You know “Bio Gas”? It is one way of people in my village in the use of human and animal faeces to be made in the gas so it can be used as fuel for cooking and lighting sources.

  • http://www.vivu.info Phong

    and use the skin inside of banana to brush the teeth, we have white teeth, nice!

  • Sylvs1989

    Correction dude, “putting it on the floor”.. Not “putting it in the floor”..

  • Ver_reyes512

    I will try this on my black shoes

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cornelis-Fredy-Pradipta/100002354740398 Cornelis Fredy Pradipta

    mak mak Naim udah pu’uang wou amp” mou non auh ah, lapar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cornelis-Fredy-Pradipta/100002354740398 Cornelis Fredy Pradipta

    lagi-an lagi ‘emut ‘emut pisang cepatan di kebet-in turun caldem kuning terus trus… !!!. Hitam dan gelap seperti “Embel Tahu” anak gadis bodo dasar. Dia marah marah juga tdk bodo, sunat.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Cornelis-Fredy-Pradipta/100002354740398 Cornelis Fredy Pradipta

    Duit duit kita jualan duit duit ayoh siapa yang mau ayoh beritanya doang ini gratis ayo gratis ini. Bentar bentar bodo masalahnya tdk bukan, Moler emang untuk cewek monyet di gunting dendaman terbalas, Tdk bodo. apa lagi bau Robocop untuk dia apa in lagi cuma bau doang apa lagi nyampe bau Caldem kuning kuning ini tdk mencret juga.

  • http://www.bes.co.uk plumbing

     I never thought that i can still used banana skins. This is so informative. Thank you so much. Don’t worry, i will try that. 

  • venus

    hi phong,very interesting that banana peel can also use for whiten your teeth.i wanna try it.thanks

  • Wan_mereyam

    hello phong, me, also want to try ur tips

  • Sylvester Thambyah

    use it as a skin cleanser , the inside of the skin – after a hard day at work , get rid of the grime on
    your face, refreshing esp. if you have had it in the icebox for some time.

  • Elena Angelica

    it depends on what kind of skin you have and what pH the skin needs

  • Elena Angelica

    Unfortunately, just like Dwi, we live in a country with more than 200 species of banana. not sure all appliable aon skin or as burger, lol

  • Idontvotebn

    My grandma used to tell us about this decades ago.  Nobody listened to her.  Thanks Weena. Never too late to try it!!

  • Raquel

    I re use banana skin ( saba variety) as a burger. After i boiled the banana (saba variety), i separate the fruit from the skin and  chopped them and use as the bulk ingredient for burger. Mix 1/4 kg. of ground pork into about 1/2 kg of boiled, chopped saba skin, add chopped garlic,onion, black pepper, salt to taste and a little of flour as binder. mix them thoroughly. make a small balls of the mixture and flattened them and fry until brown on both side.get the cooked burger and you can put ketchup and mayonnaise and put in a bread as the sandwich. Presto, we eat this and i also offer this to our kids. thanks! from Raquel 

  • Lgddadskie_dads

    banana its good for our blood prsure, if u getting angry eat banana your be calm down this is true

  • Darylluizor

    Oh!. eat banana na.if you have banana na, give me so i can eat banana na.