http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/business/energy-environment/23recycle.html?ref=science

This article is about how airlines produce an enormous amount of waste; not only from the exhaust from the planes, but from all the trash collected before the flight. Airports force you to throw out any liquid that you have when going through security, generally there are mostly plastic bottles that are disposed of. There is so much trash and possible recyclable items and airports don't do a good job at all of recycling the waste. Allen Hershkowitz made a great point in saying “It does not make sense to acquire oil from the Middle East or the north slope of Alaska and turn it into a plastic bottle, use it once and throw it away,” 75% of trash generated in airports is recyclable and only about 20% is recycled. This can so easily be fixed and would help the environment greatly by stopping the buildup of landfills, but airports still don't have a good recycling program. I think this is just ridiculous, airports probably have a lot of money because of the high demand for flights so they should be able create a respectable recycling program.