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Oct 2018
6:49pm, 28 Oct 2018
9,402 posts
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Garfield
Oh no! 
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Oct 2018
7:10pm, 28 Oct 2018
39,447 posts
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Velociraptor
I can see how gel wrappers would be a bigger hazard than most non-biodegradable litter because the sweet gel residue will be attractive to animals, or to insects that are then attractive to animals.
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Oct 2018
9:34pm, 28 Oct 2018
11,089 posts
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Rosehip
Why can't I find Fellrunning's blog?
Anyway - afraid V'rap is right. I do think that cyclists are worse for dropping gel wrappers willy-nilly along the roads when they're out for their Sunday morning club rides - Nicetri and BCC, I'm looking at you, I've watched you do it!
In road races, I think it is the herd instinct - there's people to clean up attitude. Not sure how to educate fix that though. At GER/P'boro I watched one bloke lob his half drunk bottle into the hedge a few yards past a bin - and another throw his into someone's front garden.
This was back of the pack - where seconds carefully putting/throwing the bottle into the big bins marked "all bottles here - for recycling" would have meant nothing,
grrrrrrr
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Oct 2018
9:48pm, 28 Oct 2018
14,009 posts
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Sharkie
Not a blog Rosehip - it was on HappyG's anti hunting thread. I was surprised because I wouldn't have thought of a large wild mammal* eating plastic - but I guess V-rap is right.
*some dogs will eat ANYTHING
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Oct 2018
10:31pm, 28 Oct 2018
15,634 posts
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Carpathius
Horses will eat dog poo in bags, because they're attracted to the cereal smell.
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Oct 2018
1:04am, 29 Oct 2018
3,291 posts
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run free
Cows will eat the gel packets. They simply wrap grass round their tongue and pull the entire lot away....including gel packets trapped within.
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Oct 2018
1:09am, 29 Oct 2018
3,292 posts
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run free
For a start in what we can do, what if for each event that you enter, would you request that the organisers consider using water dispensers + go cupless + request runners BYOB + more direction and instructions that runners must put all their waste in the bins or risk being disqualified
In Singapore we have had to clean up the river from cups that had landed in the river. At the London expo, the Barbados marathon had pictures with cups on the beach that runners had tossed. When did runners' experience come at the expense of our environment?
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Oct 2018
7:22am, 29 Oct 2018
9,404 posts
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Garfield
Fortunately I run races with a bumbag (just to have the phone handy, hold gels and my rings if my fingers swell) and empty gel packs are rolled up and put in the outside pocket after I squeeze every last morsel of gel out (think toothpaste tube rolled up)...I hate wasted energy gel and need every drop!
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Oct 2018
7:32am, 29 Oct 2018
39,449 posts
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Velociraptor
Any mileage in pushing people who do sport to wean themselves off their predominantly psychological, advertising-driven "need" to slurp on gels all the time, or on encouraging race organisers to DQ anyone caught with gels on their person?
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Oct 2018
8:42am, 29 Oct 2018
27,363 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
I have been known to challenge runners who drop gel wrappers and shamed a guy into going back to pick his up mid race, I carry mine until either I see a bin or until I get back home, during Amsterdam Marathon in 2011 I attempted to toss one into a bin as I ran past, realised it had missed and to the astonishment of supporters doubled back to pick it up.
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