One traveler took to social media to discuss why fellow passengers on board flights do not dispose of their rubbish properly – and have communicated a way to fix the problem.
The note, posted on the r/SouthwestAirlines forum, was titled “Favorite trick for people who put trash in seatback pockets.”
The user said he or she witnessed an “alarming amount of people” not handing over their trash to flight attendants for collection before the plane landed.
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“While we are waiting to disembark“I’ll mention, ‘Hey, I think you left your AirPods in the throwback bag,’ which forces them to acknowledge the trash,” the person wrote.
The user added: “Of the four times I’ve done this, they took out the trash twice and once the guy said, ‘I’m not doing that.’ own AirPods‘ and the last one said it wasn’t his job.’
A Reddit user shared a tip on how to get other passengers to throw away their trash instead of putting it in the back pocket of an airplane seat. (iStock)
“Just one suggestion that has a 50% success rate so far,” the post says.
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Users took to the post’s comments section to discuss the issue.
“They have to pass on garbage collection like they do with cash collection in the church – for the same reason. Guilt makes people fill it up as it goes by. Problem solved,” one person suggested.
“There will always be idiots/idiots/low-lifes who just don’t care,” said another.
A Texas-based travel industry expert told Fox News Digital that on flights, trash is often strewn in seatback pockets and left on the floor. (iStock)
The same person added: “Often these are the same people who complain when they go on board and find rubbish that has been overlooked.”
One Reddit user commented: “Not me, but someone I worked with… When a guy comes over to pick up trash, he has a stack of newspapers in the seatback pocket. ‘Hey, is this trash or are you keeping it?’ Him: “I’m keeping it.”
“Well we land, the guy walks away and leaves the paper behind,” the person added.
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Continuing the story, the user wrote: “FA (flight attendant) who is cleaning up the plane sees this, grabs everything, runs up the jetway and through.” the terminalscreaming, “You forgot your newspaper!!” You said you wanted to keep it, it must be important to you!’ until she caught up with the guy and gave him back his newspaper.”
“Passive-aggressive communication at its best,” said one user.
The airlines “have to pass around a trash collection like they do the church collection for the same reason. Guilt causes people to fill it up as it passes. Problem solved,” one person suggested on social media. (iStock)
Gary Leff, a Based in Texas Travel industry expert and author of the blog View From the Wing told Fox News Digital that trash is often strewn in seat pockets and left on the floor.
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“Airlines are increasingly spending little time cleaning up between flights. They don’t schedule planes with enough time on the ground to do that – and when a flight is delayed, that’s one of the first things to get canceled,” Leff said.
“Cleaning up ourselves is a fundamental starting point for civil society.”
It’s important, he stressed, that passengers at least hand their trash to flight attendants when they go down the aisle to collect it.
“Cleaning up ourselves is a fundamental starting point for civil society,” Leff said.
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“You have to do this at your seat on the plane, as long as the airline makes it reasonably easy by coming down the aisle with a bag to collect the trash and gives you enough time to collect it – and you have to do it in the also in the cinema,” said Leff.
“Don’t just give up on this Popcorn bags “On the floor,” Leff added. “Take them to the trash cans at the exit.” It’s only a few meters.”
