When the plane we are flying on has landed at our destination airport and we are walking towards the terminal, we may not think about how many people are walking around the terminal. waste we have left in the cabin of the aircraft. Obviously, we also don't think about what to do with that amount of waste afterwards.
A recent study by IATA estimated that each passenger generates an average of 1.43 kg of waste per flight. The exact amount, which ranges from 0.83 kg to 2.5 kg in each case, depends on the length of the flight, the class of service or whether the flight is low-costamong other variables.
If we take into account that during 2016 some 3.7 billion passengers took a plane, the maths tells us that between them they generated some 5.29 billion kilograms of rubbish.
Another issue that we don't usually think about is grey water and black water or, in other words, water from kitchens, sinks and toilets. Many people believe that we have to be careful when planes fly overhead because we might get unexpected rain, but nothing could be further from the truth.
For its part, the recycling and reuse of waste are practices that are increasingly being implemented as part of the routine actions of airlines around the world.
Many of these facts and curiosities we have compiled in an interesting infographics which will help us to better understand the complexity of some of the systems and procedures that exist in an aircraft. In this case, those relating to in-flight waste.
