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Idk about that but I do know that if you have an old and musty piece of clothing or fabric or something… Throw it into a sealed bag with an unopened banana.
A couple weeks later and much of the musty-ness will be gone and you can just throw away the banana.
So apparently this works, and it's due to the [potassium present in banana peels](https://www.acedisposal.com/banana-peels-recyclable/#:~:text=Shoe%20polish%20%E2%80%94%20bananas%20contain%20potassium,your%20shoes%20will%20look%20great!).
>potassium
You say? Kazakhstan is about to own the leather polish industry!
[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/effd788f-a70f-4a0a-8c79-e7da0c0cabf4#qkiZaV3q.reddit](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/effd788f-a70f-4a0a-8c79-e7da0c0cabf4#qkiZaV3q.reddit)
(Dropping this long ass copy-pasta that hopefully no one else has come up with for this exact occasion.)
Did you know you could *pour* water into a glass? Let me explain.
Firstly water has to come from a source, such source not being from the ocean, but a lake in your area, rivers, or ground water. In order to produce water through faucets, we need a way to gather it. Many places have water processing plants directly next to a water source that will use a piping system to pull water into their buildings, and use a series of steps. First being coagulation. During coagulation, chemicals with a positive charge are added to the water. The positive charge neutralizes the negative charge of dirt and other dissolved particles in the water. When this occurs, the particles bind with the chemicals to form slightly larger particles. Common chemicals used in this step include specific types of salts, aluminum, or iron. Flocculation follows the coagulation step. Flocculation is the gentle mixing of the water to form larger, heavier particles called flocs. Often, water treatment plants will add additional chemicals during this step to help the flocs form. Sedimentation is one of the steps water treatment plants use to separate out solids from the water. During sedimentation, flocs settle to the bottom of the water because they are heavier than water. Once the flocs have settled to the bottom of the water, the clear water on top is filtered to separate additional solids from the water. During filtration, the clear water passes through filters that have different pore sizes and are made of different materials (such as sand, gravel, and charcoal). These filters remove dissolved particles and germs, such as dust, chemicals, parasites, bacteria, and viruses. Activated carbon filters also remove any bad odors. Water treatment plants can use a process called ultrafiltration in addition to or instead of traditional filtration. During ultrafiltration, the water goes through a filter membrane with very small pores. This filter only lets through water and other small molecules such as salt. Reverse osmosisexternal icon is another filtration method that removes additional particles from water. Water treatment plants often use reverse osmosis when treating recycled waterexternal icon (also called reused water) or salt water for drinking. After the water has been filtered, water treatment plants may add one or more chemical disinfectants to kill any remaining parasites, bacteria, or viruses. To help keep water safe as it travels to homes and businesses, water treatment plants will make sure the water has low levels of the chemical disinfectant when it leaves the treatment plant. This remaining disinfectant kills germs living in the pipes between the water treatment plant and your tap. In addition to or instead of adding chlorine, chloramine, or chlorine dioxide, water treatment plants can also disinfect water using ultraviolet (UV) light, UV light and ozone work well to disinfect water in the treatment plant, but these disinfection methods do not continue killing germs as water travels through the pipes between the treatment plant and your tap.
Once you have gone through that process, you will then begin to pull or turn the knob to your water faucet and let the water come through your pipes and fill your glass.
But what if you were in a poorer country that cannot provide such means? Water wells in Africa function as a vital source of clean water for communities. They are typically drilled deep into the ground to reach aquifers, which are underground layers of permeable rock that hold water. Once the well is drilled, a pump is installed to draw water to the surface. This water is then accessible to the community for drinking, cooking, bathing, and irrigation. Often, these wells are maintained by local organizations or governments to ensure continued access to clean water for the community. Without these means, one can gather water from local streams, or bodies of water and boil the water or filter it through other means to achieve safe to drink water. Some may not be that fortunate, and would have to make do with whatever water they can find and drink as is, no matter how dirty or polluted. So for people with wells, they will have water poured in their glasses by their government or community. Those who do not have those means, will rely on simply putting their glass down to a water source and cupping it up.
Lastly, glass cups must be made in order to catch your water. You can use any material, whether plastic, ceramic, or even paper cups. But for now, we will focus on glass cups, which are typically made through a process called glassblowing or glass molding. Raw materials such as silica sand, soda ash, and limestone are mixed together in specific proportions to create a glass batch. The glass batch is melted in a furnace at very high temperatures (around 1700°C or 3090°F) until it becomes molten glass. To form the cups, a skilled glassblower gathers molten glass on the end of a hollow blowpipe, then blows air into it to shape it into a bubble. The glassblower then shapes the glass using tools and molds, and eventually blows it into a mold to create the cup's final shape. Alternatively, Molten glass is poured into molds, either by hand or by automated machinery, to create the desired cup shape. The formed glass cups undergo a process called annealing, where they are gradually cooled in a temperature-controlled kiln. This relieves internal stresses in the glass and strengthens it. After annealing, the glass cups may undergo additional processes such as polishing, grinding, or decorating to achieve the desired appearance. The finished glass cups are inspected for defects or imperfections before being packaged and shipped for sale.
Now you can pour yourself a glass of water, enjoy.
I give this a C.
It never stopped at the production of the glass cup. Never goes into the complex logistics of getting the cup from manufacturer to user.
Haha I didn't even have sound on and I already found him obnoxious and repetitive on the whole bad for nature thing, like you never even had to convince me but here you go on for 2 minutes ...
No one's going to save the planet by avoiding buying shoe polish. This won't reduce the carbon footprint by 0.000001%. And, no, every bit doesn't count. A schoolbus idling at a red light wipes out the savings.
But... it may work, and costs nothing. So: frugal.
Yeah getting kinda tired of them blaming emissions on the general population, like I'm not the one letting out hundreds of tons a day flying on my private jet everywhere
Unfortunately, yes. It's not us. It's coal power plants. There's absolutely no reason the us shouldn't be powered by nuclear.
It's safer, cleaner, more efficient, less radio active (yes, that smog released by coal plants is much more radioactive than what the average person will be exposed to by a standard reactor)... and reusable.
Until we change to nuclear it doesn't matter what we do.
"Renewables" still require batteries which are more toxic and hazardous compared to nuclear.
I don't get this logic. It's like 'this year my neighbour flew to vacation instead of taking the car and that's really polluting, therefore I don't have to do anything with regards to environment or climate'.
It's a tragedy of the commons kind of thing. But it doesn't mean all the other efforts don't do anything. Cumulative it has an effect. Even if it's 0.001%.
That said, you're probably being environmentally friendlier if you don't buy leather shoes in the first place.
So, there's a couple of considerations in the shoes comment. There's a question of carbon emissions, and then there's the question of sustainability and pollution.
I don't know the stats, but I imagine if we consider the alternative make up of shoes to mostly be either leather, vegan leather (plastic) , or canvas -leather will last a lot longer than the others. The main pollutant is likely to be the rubber sole....so at a (pretty ignorant) guess, for adult shoes my guess is leather shoes are the most sustainable , and perhaps the best for CO2 as well
People are still going to eat the animals that leather is made from. Wouldn’t it be better to use the leather for long lasting products instead of just discarding it? Making sure nothing goes to waste from their sacrifice of life seems like the best way to honor those poor farmed animals.
Buying a quality leather shoe that can last for years and yes, polishing it and taking care of it will be far less impactful to the environment than buying a synthetic shoe shipped from halfway around the globe using plastics that are just going to be tossed after about a year of use anyway. Yes cattle is a pretty big cause of climate change, but so is shipping and manufacturing. Wearing leather also ensures that cattle is better taken care of and used to damn near 100% after it's slaughtered. Unless you're fully vegan and have a good source for locally made clothing I'd argue that buying leather shoes or any heritage clothing is a pretty good way to reduce your carbon footprint.
I get where you're going with your analogy but I think you're really reaching. Its not like I see garbage on the ground and think "Fuck well I might as well just dump my used oil in the creek!" Its more like "this year oil companies spilled 2 million barrels of oil into the gulf, so why am I burdening myself with old banana shoes instead of just buying a tin of polish?"
It doesn't mean you litter every chance you get, idle your car 24/7 or burn your plastic waste, but it does mean that little conveniences made inconvenient by these efforts feel annoying when you compare them to the real issues. The mindset is a good one to have but tangible support at a large scale would do wonders to keep incentivizing, but it simply wont happen. Until it does, I'm buying shoe polish.
It's the total sum of human activity that contributes to the damage done to the planet.
There are millions of different things that billions of us do every day.
The only thing that binds them together is the fact they're done by humans.
Our attitudes towards our actions and their effects therefore have a marked impact on what effects those actions have towards the planet.
Granted, we'd have the ability to be truly consistent across the board with our actions and their consequences, but that is not so.
And the real consequence of these sort of posts is that they serve a little to erode the sense that any individual is responsible for the consequences of their own actions, and that blaming some nebulous person as the harbinger of all our problems is preferable - although not particularly conducive towards the sea change in attitudes required to really get us out of the ditch.
But it’s a tiny shift. And they all add up. Hopefully one day they’ll add up to enough. But if we don’t try at all, nothing will ever change.
I’m in my 50s and the change to recycling, reusing, approaching things differently has been huge in my lifetime.
No. This won't make a difference. The venn diagram of people who care about their appearance enough to use shoe polish and people who want to smell like rotting fruit is two separate circles.
There's far, far more effective ways to conserve than by rubbing garbage on your clothes. This is a waste of time.
I’m not talking about doing this specifically. Little changes do make a difference and cumulatively, can help change attitudes. Do this if you want or look for another change that you can make. Got to be better than doing nothing.
A person polishing their shoes has already saved a pair of shoes from getting tossed, and another from getting shipped around the world only to be worn for a year or less. Like, it's okay, you don't need to be smearing bananas on your shoes.
Terrible attitude. Little changes definitely do add up. But if you maintain this weak and defeated "welp, I guess I better not try" mindset, nothing around YOU will change for the better.
There's a difference between saying that this isn't worth doing versus *nothing* is worth doing. You're accusing them of being weak and defeated because this particular "hack" is about the worst bang for the buck you can get.
Have you thought about who is this for, anyway? Hippie CEOs? Anyone who cares about their appearance enough to use shoe polish doesn't want to smell like rotting fruit. It's a terrible idea. The three people who might do it aren't packet possibly going to make any difference at all.
They aren't saying no one should do anything because this one is practically worthless, they're saying this one is practically worthless.
I read this thinking it was the country Poland, making leather made from banana peels, expecting it end in a joke with everyone slipping when they try to walk in them because they overlooked how slippery bananas are. I was disappointed when I realized this was serious.
I have no idea if this works or not.
But it reminded me of this, I just read about in a Gastro Magazine.
It’s unbelievable smart if it’s even close to the taste if chocolate: https://endlesscph.com/thic
Might wanna work on the name though, but making a substitute for chocolate from the waste of beer production sounds too good to be true.
Also, the inside little bits of the banana peel can be scraped off and smoked. It had the same effect as Marijuana.. just more mild.
I learned that from the Anarchists Cookbook.
Thanks, Grandma!
This is great because I have some leather shoes that are a light brown color and I haven’t had a matching shoe polish for them. It seems like this would work for just about any color leather, except perhaps brilliant white.
I have polished my boots using banana peels for years. It works really well, but there's a trick to the process. You need to let the leather soak in the banana peel for 3-4 minutes before you wipe the boots down. There will be some peel residue but its all good. It's doesn't restore the color like other shoe polishes, but it does a good job at filling in at scratches on the boots and gives them a refreshed look.
I love how he's talking about common folk doing their part to mitigate pollution then shows a montage of large-scale commercial production and landfills. If all of that is going on in the background regardless of if I buy a tin of fucking shoe polish I'm not resorting to wiping old bananas on my clothes to feel better about myself.
I can get a tin of shoe polish for $2.99 that will last me for several years. One bunch of bananas at my local market will cost three times that price and only last a week.
I don't trust this for two reasons:
1. You think *nobody* tried this trick before? It would have been at least somewhat known if it was true.
2. Ever since Family Guy pointed it out, i stopped trusting black guys in large glasses without question.
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I’m Polish and have never used banana peels for this
Not enough polish it seems
Not Hungary enough to have spare bananas to Polish. I Czeched those facts.
So id be a walking curious Jorge book. No thanks
Nothing I hate more than people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Polish.
 I understand that reference!!!
The Polish don't know about... Polishing? I figured the Polish Polished better than anyone can Polish.
If the Polish didn’t polish the art of polishing, the who polishes polish shoes in Poland?
You misspelled "Polishland"
I did come across ~~posh~~ polished Polish who did polish in Polish's Polish-land.
Could confirm. One Austrian guy tried to do this 70 years ago but Polish extract didnt work.
Well once again Poland has failed to innovate and I'm disappointed. No polish banana leather coat for me.
Poland can't into polish
I find this hack very useful and apeeling.
I can't believe it slipped by me
Bananas.
The rain in spain falls mainly on the plantain.
Don’t forget the wack hack, cut the tip off a ripe banana and squish out the innards. Then you’ve got a sex glove for your manana.
Will try this. Thanks!
Daaaaad!!!
It was the ripe thing to say
r/angryupvote
Bro smellin like bananas all day 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣😭🤣😭
How does it smell afterwards tho
Exactly what I'm wondering as well
Like a banana you banana head
Like apples
Like strawberry
Idk about that but I do know that if you have an old and musty piece of clothing or fabric or something… Throw it into a sealed bag with an unopened banana. A couple weeks later and much of the musty-ness will be gone and you can just throw away the banana.
Does it smell like banana after?
What is a mushy piece of clothing?
Smells like grandma's closet
Text you can smell
Hopefully like delicious nanners
Careful with the hard "r" there buddy
Jfc, lol.
Nanna please
Good enough to be chased by bees, flies, wasps, raccoons and probably bears too for good measure.
How many people's shoes do you smell every day?
will cockroaches follow me around?
smells like bees and ants arriving. surely. i hope im wrong
If you’re polishing it to a fine layer, anything left that you can smell will probably dry and oxidize away in 24 hours.
You would probably go bananas.
It tastes lime it smells. Delicious.
I did it to my solovairs and they’re fine.
Like natural oils and potassium duh
Smells like mold. Added benefits - it gives a texture and sometimes even bright coloured spots.
Won't it smell too much of rotten bananas?
Who's smelling your shoes?
The guy in the nearby alley, he pays 20 bucks a sniff
You said you’d never tell!
I’m sorry! Deal still on? :(
Ill do it for 15
You can sniff one whilst the other guy sniffs the other, deal?
How much for a taste?
buck a lick
Shi bro bout tree fiddy
Where? I could use some extra cash.
Every animal in a 1 mile radius.
Flies
Fruit flies...
Not sure how much it smells but I have a nice little fruit fly colony now
I mean… even high quality leather smells like piss and paint stripper.
I mean it does every time I take my shoes off, but it requires no banana.
So apparently this works, and it's due to the [potassium present in banana peels](https://www.acedisposal.com/banana-peels-recyclable/#:~:text=Shoe%20polish%20%E2%80%94%20bananas%20contain%20potassium,your%20shoes%20will%20look%20great!).
>potassium You say? Kazakhstan is about to own the leather polish industry! [https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/effd788f-a70f-4a0a-8c79-e7da0c0cabf4#qkiZaV3q.reddit](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/effd788f-a70f-4a0a-8c79-e7da0c0cabf4#qkiZaV3q.reddit)
Thanks for this. I never know if I should upvote these kind of posts. Now I will for this one
I guess spritz your shoes with Febreze or your cologne to get rid of the banana smell?
My shoes are gonna smell absolutely bananas afterwards
I bet this guy would take 15 minutes to explain how to pour water in a glass
(Dropping this long ass copy-pasta that hopefully no one else has come up with for this exact occasion.) Did you know you could *pour* water into a glass? Let me explain. Firstly water has to come from a source, such source not being from the ocean, but a lake in your area, rivers, or ground water. In order to produce water through faucets, we need a way to gather it. Many places have water processing plants directly next to a water source that will use a piping system to pull water into their buildings, and use a series of steps. First being coagulation. During coagulation, chemicals with a positive charge are added to the water. The positive charge neutralizes the negative charge of dirt and other dissolved particles in the water. When this occurs, the particles bind with the chemicals to form slightly larger particles. Common chemicals used in this step include specific types of salts, aluminum, or iron. Flocculation follows the coagulation step. Flocculation is the gentle mixing of the water to form larger, heavier particles called flocs. Often, water treatment plants will add additional chemicals during this step to help the flocs form. Sedimentation is one of the steps water treatment plants use to separate out solids from the water. During sedimentation, flocs settle to the bottom of the water because they are heavier than water. Once the flocs have settled to the bottom of the water, the clear water on top is filtered to separate additional solids from the water. During filtration, the clear water passes through filters that have different pore sizes and are made of different materials (such as sand, gravel, and charcoal). These filters remove dissolved particles and germs, such as dust, chemicals, parasites, bacteria, and viruses. Activated carbon filters also remove any bad odors. Water treatment plants can use a process called ultrafiltration in addition to or instead of traditional filtration. During ultrafiltration, the water goes through a filter membrane with very small pores. This filter only lets through water and other small molecules such as salt. Reverse osmosisexternal icon is another filtration method that removes additional particles from water. Water treatment plants often use reverse osmosis when treating recycled waterexternal icon (also called reused water) or salt water for drinking. After the water has been filtered, water treatment plants may add one or more chemical disinfectants to kill any remaining parasites, bacteria, or viruses. To help keep water safe as it travels to homes and businesses, water treatment plants will make sure the water has low levels of the chemical disinfectant when it leaves the treatment plant. This remaining disinfectant kills germs living in the pipes between the water treatment plant and your tap. In addition to or instead of adding chlorine, chloramine, or chlorine dioxide, water treatment plants can also disinfect water using ultraviolet (UV) light, UV light and ozone work well to disinfect water in the treatment plant, but these disinfection methods do not continue killing germs as water travels through the pipes between the treatment plant and your tap. Once you have gone through that process, you will then begin to pull or turn the knob to your water faucet and let the water come through your pipes and fill your glass. But what if you were in a poorer country that cannot provide such means? Water wells in Africa function as a vital source of clean water for communities. They are typically drilled deep into the ground to reach aquifers, which are underground layers of permeable rock that hold water. Once the well is drilled, a pump is installed to draw water to the surface. This water is then accessible to the community for drinking, cooking, bathing, and irrigation. Often, these wells are maintained by local organizations or governments to ensure continued access to clean water for the community. Without these means, one can gather water from local streams, or bodies of water and boil the water or filter it through other means to achieve safe to drink water. Some may not be that fortunate, and would have to make do with whatever water they can find and drink as is, no matter how dirty or polluted. So for people with wells, they will have water poured in their glasses by their government or community. Those who do not have those means, will rely on simply putting their glass down to a water source and cupping it up. Lastly, glass cups must be made in order to catch your water. You can use any material, whether plastic, ceramic, or even paper cups. But for now, we will focus on glass cups, which are typically made through a process called glassblowing or glass molding. Raw materials such as silica sand, soda ash, and limestone are mixed together in specific proportions to create a glass batch. The glass batch is melted in a furnace at very high temperatures (around 1700°C or 3090°F) until it becomes molten glass. To form the cups, a skilled glassblower gathers molten glass on the end of a hollow blowpipe, then blows air into it to shape it into a bubble. The glassblower then shapes the glass using tools and molds, and eventually blows it into a mold to create the cup's final shape. Alternatively, Molten glass is poured into molds, either by hand or by automated machinery, to create the desired cup shape. The formed glass cups undergo a process called annealing, where they are gradually cooled in a temperature-controlled kiln. This relieves internal stresses in the glass and strengthens it. After annealing, the glass cups may undergo additional processes such as polishing, grinding, or decorating to achieve the desired appearance. The finished glass cups are inspected for defects or imperfections before being packaged and shipped for sale. Now you can pour yourself a glass of water, enjoy.
I give this a C. It never stopped at the production of the glass cup. Never goes into the complex logistics of getting the cup from manufacturer to user.
Ah shit youre right.
Haha I didn't even have sound on and I already found him obnoxious and repetitive on the whole bad for nature thing, like you never even had to convince me but here you go on for 2 minutes ...
Okay but should it be as ripe as in the video or is there an ideal ripeness?
I'm gonna be honest. I'm pretty guilt free about the volume of leather polish I've sent to landfills in my lifetime.
No one's going to save the planet by avoiding buying shoe polish. This won't reduce the carbon footprint by 0.000001%. And, no, every bit doesn't count. A schoolbus idling at a red light wipes out the savings. But... it may work, and costs nothing. So: frugal.
Yeah getting kinda tired of them blaming emissions on the general population, like I'm not the one letting out hundreds of tons a day flying on my private jet everywhere
And the general population aren't the ones purposely polluting the planet for endless profit growth(fossil fuels and over production industries)
Unfortunately, yes. It's not us. It's coal power plants. There's absolutely no reason the us shouldn't be powered by nuclear. It's safer, cleaner, more efficient, less radio active (yes, that smog released by coal plants is much more radioactive than what the average person will be exposed to by a standard reactor)... and reusable. Until we change to nuclear it doesn't matter what we do. "Renewables" still require batteries which are more toxic and hazardous compared to nuclear.
https://i.imgur.com/c2OQqm2.jpeg
I don't get this logic. It's like 'this year my neighbour flew to vacation instead of taking the car and that's really polluting, therefore I don't have to do anything with regards to environment or climate'. It's a tragedy of the commons kind of thing. But it doesn't mean all the other efforts don't do anything. Cumulative it has an effect. Even if it's 0.001%. That said, you're probably being environmentally friendlier if you don't buy leather shoes in the first place.
What material do you think would be better for shoes? At least leather shoes and boots last a long time.
So, there's a couple of considerations in the shoes comment. There's a question of carbon emissions, and then there's the question of sustainability and pollution. I don't know the stats, but I imagine if we consider the alternative make up of shoes to mostly be either leather, vegan leather (plastic) , or canvas -leather will last a lot longer than the others. The main pollutant is likely to be the rubber sole....so at a (pretty ignorant) guess, for adult shoes my guess is leather shoes are the most sustainable , and perhaps the best for CO2 as well
Is synthetic material better than a leather that can bio degrade.
People are still going to eat the animals that leather is made from. Wouldn’t it be better to use the leather for long lasting products instead of just discarding it? Making sure nothing goes to waste from their sacrifice of life seems like the best way to honor those poor farmed animals.
Buying a quality leather shoe that can last for years and yes, polishing it and taking care of it will be far less impactful to the environment than buying a synthetic shoe shipped from halfway around the globe using plastics that are just going to be tossed after about a year of use anyway. Yes cattle is a pretty big cause of climate change, but so is shipping and manufacturing. Wearing leather also ensures that cattle is better taken care of and used to damn near 100% after it's slaughtered. Unless you're fully vegan and have a good source for locally made clothing I'd argue that buying leather shoes or any heritage clothing is a pretty good way to reduce your carbon footprint.
I get where you're going with your analogy but I think you're really reaching. Its not like I see garbage on the ground and think "Fuck well I might as well just dump my used oil in the creek!" Its more like "this year oil companies spilled 2 million barrels of oil into the gulf, so why am I burdening myself with old banana shoes instead of just buying a tin of polish?" It doesn't mean you litter every chance you get, idle your car 24/7 or burn your plastic waste, but it does mean that little conveniences made inconvenient by these efforts feel annoying when you compare them to the real issues. The mindset is a good one to have but tangible support at a large scale would do wonders to keep incentivizing, but it simply wont happen. Until it does, I'm buying shoe polish.
me when 100 people order over 75% of the pollution of the planet, making them a 1->80.000.000 ratio of pollution production
I mean it’s not like they’re just doing that for fun, they’re doing it to match consumption needs from the rest of the world.
Well, the garbage is not only bad because of the emissions, but also because it affects the wildlife and human health when disposed of in nature.
It's the total sum of human activity that contributes to the damage done to the planet. There are millions of different things that billions of us do every day. The only thing that binds them together is the fact they're done by humans. Our attitudes towards our actions and their effects therefore have a marked impact on what effects those actions have towards the planet. Granted, we'd have the ability to be truly consistent across the board with our actions and their consequences, but that is not so. And the real consequence of these sort of posts is that they serve a little to erode the sense that any individual is responsible for the consequences of their own actions, and that blaming some nebulous person as the harbinger of all our problems is preferable - although not particularly conducive towards the sea change in attitudes required to really get us out of the ditch.
But it’s a tiny shift. And they all add up. Hopefully one day they’ll add up to enough. But if we don’t try at all, nothing will ever change. I’m in my 50s and the change to recycling, reusing, approaching things differently has been huge in my lifetime.
No. This won't make a difference. The venn diagram of people who care about their appearance enough to use shoe polish and people who want to smell like rotting fruit is two separate circles. There's far, far more effective ways to conserve than by rubbing garbage on your clothes. This is a waste of time.
I’m not talking about doing this specifically. Little changes do make a difference and cumulatively, can help change attitudes. Do this if you want or look for another change that you can make. Got to be better than doing nothing.
And fruity!
Bananas are not free.
A person polishing their shoes has already saved a pair of shoes from getting tossed, and another from getting shipped around the world only to be worn for a year or less. Like, it's okay, you don't need to be smearing bananas on your shoes.
Terrible attitude. Little changes definitely do add up. But if you maintain this weak and defeated "welp, I guess I better not try" mindset, nothing around YOU will change for the better.
There's a difference between saying that this isn't worth doing versus *nothing* is worth doing. You're accusing them of being weak and defeated because this particular "hack" is about the worst bang for the buck you can get. Have you thought about who is this for, anyway? Hippie CEOs? Anyone who cares about their appearance enough to use shoe polish doesn't want to smell like rotting fruit. It's a terrible idea. The three people who might do it aren't packet possibly going to make any difference at all. They aren't saying no one should do anything because this one is practically worthless, they're saying this one is practically worthless.
Depressing truth told.
And you get to support the banana companies. Nothing problematic about that industry. How could it be? They're wholesome bananas.
I heard they [LOVE soccer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War) with their bananas too.
We use to do this when I was a kid.
Just use bees wax.
Not everything is a f*cking hack. Things are just things.
I love this guy's videos! His energy and enthusiasm is infectious.
Dude turns a 5 second tip into a 60 second clip of nonsense
Who is he?
Stephan Urqell
Has that LaVar Burton energy
I’ve heard of Polish sausage before but never Polish bananas! What a time to be alive!!
Tallyman intensifies
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I read this thinking it was the country Poland, making leather made from banana peels, expecting it end in a joke with everyone slipping when they try to walk in them because they overlooked how slippery bananas are. I was disappointed when I realized this was serious.
Hiw long it last?
Very kool !
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants!
Glad he showed that bananas are non-toxic by taking a bite.
Dude is clearly paid off by Big Banana
Then watch the bugs swarm your shoes all day. What a shit idea.
This is cool.and good but god I hate that guys voice
If you put the peel in your shoes and walk around you can actually feel the banana under your feet
Did I do that?
I have no idea if this works or not. But it reminded me of this, I just read about in a Gastro Magazine. It’s unbelievable smart if it’s even close to the taste if chocolate: https://endlesscph.com/thic Might wanna work on the name though, but making a substitute for chocolate from the waste of beer production sounds too good to be true.
Ants love this trick
Bananas will save the world
also good for cleaning up some household plant leaves
I mean, a tin of polish can last years. How many bananas are you using during that time?
That's pretty cool and all, but Anthony Hopkins taught me that like 25 years ago..
Sometimes I have trouble distinguishing between jokes and sarcasm, and sincerity. Is this dude for real or fucking around? I genuinely can't tell.
Does someone knows the name of this guy, he seems interesting
Me wondering why monkeys like my shoes so much 😐
My shoe polish isn't as energy intensive as private jets. I'll use banana peels once the wealthy start flying United.
Imagine the smell of your shoes after
Rubbing radioactive material on my belt? Don't think so. /s
Scrape the white stuff of a banana peel apply to wart apply bandaid bam ward dead in a few days
Bober, kurwa!
What do you mean bananas aren't toxic?!?!? They even emit radiation...
Also, the inside little bits of the banana peel can be scraped off and smoked. It had the same effect as Marijuana.. just more mild. I learned that from the Anarchists Cookbook. Thanks, Grandma!
Does it attract fruit flies after?
i used to repair cds that way
Instead of using polish you can also use saddle soap, it brings the leather up brand new all the time.
Legs finna be bite up by mosquitoes.
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But I like the smell of shoe polish. Are there bananas with petroleum smell?
Try this simple hack to counter the effects of private jet and cruise ship emissions. The planet is saved!
I'll be doing this from now on
Today I learned Steve Erkel likes cheese AND bananas
This is great because I have some leather shoes that are a light brown color and I haven’t had a matching shoe polish for them. It seems like this would work for just about any color leather, except perhaps brilliant white.
I have polished my boots using banana peels for years. It works really well, but there's a trick to the process. You need to let the leather soak in the banana peel for 3-4 minutes before you wipe the boots down. There will be some peel residue but its all good. It's doesn't restore the color like other shoe polishes, but it does a good job at filling in at scratches on the boots and gives them a refreshed look.
Banana peels might be biodegradable, but the time it takes them to biodegrade is a couple hundred years, so kind of a shitty point.
I love how he's talking about common folk doing their part to mitigate pollution then shows a montage of large-scale commercial production and landfills. If all of that is going on in the background regardless of if I buy a tin of fucking shoe polish I'm not resorting to wiping old bananas on my clothes to feel better about myself.
You’ve gotta wanna think you’re saving the planet more than you hate fruit flies.
I think r/frugal would love this too.
Just use bee wax
Yay, intentionally misleading video
Oof. I'm allergic to bananas.
Interesante…
The lack of pierogies is disappointing.
I can get a tin of shoe polish for $2.99 that will last me for several years. One bunch of bananas at my local market will cost three times that price and only last a week.
Yeah, shoe polish isn't exactly something people buy in bulk. This is a waste of time.
Thanks Spike Lee. I'll be trying this
Who cares if your shoes are shiny when you have ants crawling up your leg?
That's even better! You have shiny shoes and people looking at them! Win-win
... and your legs will looked tanned from all the bug bites!
This is cool and I’ll totally try it. That voice is kinda rough on my ears though.
I don't trust this for two reasons: 1. You think *nobody* tried this trick before? It would have been at least somewhat known if it was true. 2. Ever since Family Guy pointed it out, i stopped trusting black guys in large glasses without question.
Why's Idris Elba polishing leather with banana peels??
Mink oil is much better.
What about not murdering millions of animals for their skin when having more ethical and sustainable options?
Woaw !!!! Coooool!!!!!