Polish Your Shoes With A Banana Peel (VIDEO)

Shoe Polish and the Environment
In Los Angeles and most other places, shoe polish is disallowed in the regular trash. It must be disposed of as a hazardous material, because it often contains materials like naphtha and turpentine.

Polish Your Shoes With a Banana Peel
You can polish your shoes with a banana peel. It is a great way to reduce waste. Eat the banana for obvious reasons. Reuse the peel to polish the shoe. The oils and the potassium in the banana polish and preserve your shoes. Compost the peel. You can have polished shoes without damaging your health or the environment, leaving behind zero packaging waste.

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Comments

[Diogenis]

10:15 AM on 02/03/2009

Quite a pealing I say Watson.

[peithecelt]

09:12 AM on 02/03/2009

How about using something that is not in and of itself an environmen­tal disaster?

Just saying.. Bananas are hardly (at least for those of us who live in the NE, or other areas where banana plants would not survive the winter) environmen­tally friendly purchases.

(not saying they're worse than shoe polish, but compared to say bees wax and an oil that doesn't require the destructio­n of large swaths of rain forest, and nearly slave conditions for the workers, they're pretty not-green)­.

[ignorantwillyharper]

02:57 PM on 02/02/2009

I used a banana peel to polish my shoes and it turned out great!
Then about a week later I recieved a letter from the "MATUOBP" union. The order was cease and desists from using banana peels. That is one strong union and I informed them it wouldn't happen again. That "Monkeys Aganist The Use Of Banana Peels" is just to powerful to monkey with.

[oohlookasquirrel]

04:44 PM on 01/31/2009

I hate breathing those nasty shoe polish chemicals into my lungs and having them stink up my living spaces. I've tried banana peels and they work pretty well, but if you need a more substantia­l goop for your shoes, you can make your own shoe polish from natural ingredient­s. Inspired by the recipe of Dr. Marten's Wonder Balsam (which is too expensive for my tastes), I melted beeswax, lanolin, and coconut oil together and rubbed it into my shoes, and it works great to waterproof them. Now to put my old tins of toxic polish on freecycle, so someone who isn't ready to go the natural route will get to enjoy the nasty, old-fashio­ned stuff a bit longer.

[clsmithj]

03:49 AM on 01/31/2009

sounds interestin­g. Will have to try this out. Although I am allergic to bananas.

[whatevahs]

07:57 PM on 01/30/2009

Sounds interestin­g. How does the banana peel do with polishing your pole or flogging your log?

[Cynth]

11:20 PM on 01/30/2009

I guess you'll just have to try it.

[captainindustry]

07:36 PM on 01/30/2009

Oh lord. I got all confused and put shoe polish on my Cheerios.

[Diogenis]

10:16 AM on 02/03/2009

Is that what you call them luv?

[bdaved]

03:44 PM on 01/30/2009

Most other places?

[Clavis]

03:04 PM on 01/30/2009

You can also use a banana peel to get stains out of your clothes, deodorize your underarms and even check for counterfei­t money!

[DAE]

12:26 PM on 01/30/2009

Since when do Polish shoes need polishing?

[GayGrandpa]

09:36 AM on 01/30/2009

Next thing you know we will be polishing our bananas with our shoes.

[isadora]

02:11 PM on 01/29/2009

What does one do to get rid of scuffed spots? How does it work on boots?

[eminent]

07:40 AM on 01/29/2009

videojug is a brilliant site. careers are explained by veritable experts: more of the howto and some sllly stuff too such as how to fold a shirt with your feet.

[TattereD 1]

01:45 AM on 01/29/2009

I wear Danner's. Low maintenanc­e, long lasting, can be rebuilt for decades. Keep your banana's. I use a nice puddle of mud to wipe them and an endless amount of snow to sparkle them up. (off topic, orange/lem­on peels used as a defensive weapon to home invaders.) =)

[MNinWI]

08:44 PM on 01/30/2009

Human home invaders? What are you talking about?

[1liberalconspirator]

11:49 PM on 01/28/2009

It really is the atheist's nightmare.­..Curt Cameron reference anyone?

[JPFranklin]

03:35 PM on 01/30/2009

HAHAHA Ray Comfort would be so excited to see this.

[MizK]

06:44 PM on 01/30/2009

Don't you mean Kirk Cameron?