Originally Posted by gpelpel

Technically a banana peel is biodegradable so not harmful to the environment. If you are the only one doing it it will be unnoticed and not an issue but imagine dozens, or hundreds, or even thousands of us doing the same thing. Not so good!
We then have to hire people to clean after us, this means more taxes or less money for important things such as safety, good roads, schools, healthcare...
What about somebody tripping on it? Lawyers would go after the local government agency for damages thus more of the above.
Isn't what we are all going through now? Paying taxes and seeing services go down the drain because too many of us don't take responsibility for their actions.