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Airline asks passengers to use the toilet before boarding... and help cut carbon emissions
Daily Mail ^ | 06th October 2009

Posted on 10/06/2009 8:27:25 AM PDT by llevrok

All Nippon Airways says passengers who empty their bladders before boarding will help reduce carbon emissions

All Nippon Airways (ANA) claims that empty bladders mean lighter passengers, a lighter aircraft and thus lower fuel use.

Airline staff will be present at boarding gates in terminals to ask passengers waiting to fly to relieve themselves before boarding, The Independent reported.

ANA hopes the weight saved will lead to a five-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over the course of 30 days.

The airline began the policy on October 1, according to Japan’s NHK television.

Although it is intended as an experiment lasting one month and 42 flights, the trial may be extended if it is well-received by passengers and if results are positive.

Based on an average human bladder capacity of 15oz, if 150 passengers relieved themselves on board an aircraft, this would amount to 63.7kg of waste.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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We must all do our part, comrades
1 posted on 10/06/2009 8:27:25 AM PDT by llevrok
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I would do my part to CONTRIBUTE to some carbon emissions:


2 posted on 10/06/2009 8:29:29 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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Hells bells!...take it to the logical conclusion and leave your luggage at the airport....fly nude!


3 posted on 10/06/2009 8:29:55 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Pure insanity. If they want to save weight, stop painting those airplanes.


4 posted on 10/06/2009 8:30:47 AM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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All Nippon Airways says passengers who empty their bladders before boarding will help reduce carbon emissions

I just realized global warming has another effect. It turns lots of formerly rational individuals into blithering idiots.
5 posted on 10/06/2009 8:32:32 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: llevrok

I think we should all fly naked.


6 posted on 10/06/2009 8:33:24 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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And I would use that great British expression: “Piss off!”


7 posted on 10/06/2009 8:33:34 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
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So, if they do reduce their fuel usage by having a mass wee-wee break, will they refund the savings to their passengers?


8 posted on 10/06/2009 8:34:37 AM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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If they would just let us open the windows we could pee in-flight.


9 posted on 10/06/2009 8:35:10 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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You have GOT to be kidding me?!! They want me to pee before I fly to save fuel? Well, you know, alcohol is a mild diuretic, so you might want to think about eliminating that from flights, too.

This whole environmental “save the planet” crap is just a way to rule our lives!


10 posted on 10/06/2009 8:35:11 AM PDT by jen0517
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Do we get any points for vomiting before getting on the plane?


11 posted on 10/06/2009 8:36:32 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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(See post 3).....


12 posted on 10/06/2009 8:37:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Do we get any points for vomiting before getting on the plane?

A monster #2 should be worth flyer miles.....


13 posted on 10/06/2009 8:38:10 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Well, that’s 63Kg not in the tank. You know, if they said they were doing it for cost control, I would like it better. Less in the tank means less I have to smell.


14 posted on 10/06/2009 8:40:10 AM PDT by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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Airline staff will be present at boarding gates in terminals to ask passengers waiting to fly to relieve themselves before boarding,

15 posted on 10/06/2009 8:42:34 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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P1ss on that. What a load of cr@p.


16 posted on 10/06/2009 8:44:46 AM PDT by Dewey Revoltnow (History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. - Thomas Jefferson)
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ask and ye shall receive

http://www.eturbonews.com/1087/nude-airline-take-germany


17 posted on 10/06/2009 8:45:41 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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"Airline asks passengers to use the toilet before boarding... and help cut carbon emissions"

Imagine the reduced carbon emissions if these airline personnel all took a flying shit for themselves before boarding the aircraft. But capricious, freedom-infringing formulas for a 'greener' earth are precisely what the snakes of the green movement want, (Al Gore, et al), so they can control everyone's lives and make themselves God. Unless there is a massive uprising, the left joining the right, this world will become a hell hole for all but the godless earth worshippers, and the irrational. They will think they're in heaven, the rest of us should prepare for hell on earth. Freedom is losing ground quickly.

18 posted on 10/06/2009 8:46:23 AM PDT by jiminycricket000
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In related news, Air India has asked passengers to go on a hunger strike prior to boarding.......


19 posted on 10/06/2009 8:47:29 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

...and set fares on a formula with passenger weight as an input.


20 posted on 10/06/2009 8:47:56 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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