(CNN) — Mark Ashley watches with a weary eye whenever flight attendants walk up and down the aisles of a plane to collect the trash on his flights.
Items that he would normally separate for recycling at his home and office are often dumped into a single bag on planes.
So copious amounts of empty soda cans, plastic bottles and cups, as well as discarded newspapers — all of which could be salvaged — probably end up as garbage.
“I think about how many pounds go up in the air and then just go straight into a landfill,” said Ashley, 37, a college administrator in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He flies once a month and writes the Upgrade: Travel Better blog.
“[Some carriers] are not even trying. They’re not even putting on the theater of recycling, if you will.”
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