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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gr...passengers-to-use-toilet-before-boarding.html


Airline asks passengers to use toilet before boarding

A Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways, has started asking its passengers to visit the lavatory before boarding, in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) reasons that empty bladders means lighter passengers, which in turn means lighter aircraft and lower fuel use.

The airline will position staff near the boarding gates in terminals to ask passengers waiting for their flight to relieve themselves before boarding the aircraft.

It hopes that the weight saved will lead to a five-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over the course of a month.

According to Japan’s NHK television, the airline started the unusual policy on 1 October. Initially intended as an experiment lasting one month and 42 flights, ANA says that it may expand the trial if results are positive and it is well received by passengers.

Flying is the fastest-growing source of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for more than 600 million tons of the greenhouse gas per year.
A return flight between London Heathrow and New York’s John F Kennedy airport creates around 2700lb (1.35 tons) of CO2 per passenger – more than one-third the yearly emissions of an average person worldwide.
 
Passengers asked to pee before boarding.....While the Obama's take two 747's to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago...The "green" movement is absurd...
 
Passengers asked to pee before boarding.....While the Obama's take two 747's to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago...The "green" movement is absurd...

Bet you were one of those proud anti-socialist Americans who cheered when Chicago was voted down.
 
Another attempt at labeling attempts to save a dime as part of "going green". What a crock.

It's one thing to actually do something to help curb overconsumption of resources, it's another to hide behind the movement for the sake of saving money.
 
Passengers asked to pee before boarding.....While the Obama's take two 747's to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago...The "green" movement is absurd...

Shorter trip than the previous prez's trip to the summer Olympics...

Btw, it is absurd when view from a myopic point of view.

S
 
Bet you were one of those proud anti-socialist Americans who cheered when Chicago was voted down.

I could care less if Chicago gets the Olympics...That city has plenty of problems it needs to address before it worries about welcoming the World...It is a corrupt bankrupt city....

I have a real problem with the tax dollars that were waisted flying two 747s to Copenhagen for the "Messiah" to pitch Chicago. I also have a problem with the "green" folks wanting people to pee before boarding while the "green" President spewed more CO2 on his trip then any amount of peeing before boarding can offset. The hypocracy of the "green" movement continues....
 
Shorter trip than the previous prez's trip to the summer Olympics...

Btw, it is absurd when view from a myopic point of view.

S

Were any of these trips "green"?
 

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