{"id":2048,"date":"2020-12-30T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2020-12-30T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:45:07","slug":"what-happens-when-you-flush-the-airplane-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/what-happens-when-you-flush-the-airplane-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you flush the airplane toilet?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. There was a time when passengers in airplanes had to defecate in a bucket, which then had to be emptied out of the window, leading to its contents landing on the ground.<\/li>\n
  2. This was inconvenient and unhygienic for obvious reasons.<\/li>\n
  3. But the water-based mechanism that we have in our homes wasn\u2019t possible – water would add weight, resulting in limited passenger space and higher fuel consumption.<\/li>\n
  4. Another problem was water-spillage during turbulence.<\/li>\n
  5. Overlooking the weight-disadvantage, airlines opted for a system that used blue deodorizing gel Anotec.<\/li>\n
  6. The advantage of using Anotec over the water was that it didn\u2019t cause any spillage.<\/li>\n
  7. Every time a user flushed the toilet, an electric pump would circulate the gel in the toilet bowl that would take the waste with it to the attached tank.<\/li>\n
  8. Along with additional weight, Anotec had two other problems: A) It contained bleach that caused allergic reactions in some people; B) Anotec made the tanks leak and blue gel mixed with human waste often {tooltip}fell{end-text}Between 1979 and 2003, 27 cases of balls of \u201cblue ice\u201d falling on houses were reported in the US. The balls were so massive that one even ripped through a roof in California in 2006 while destroying a bed. {end-tooltip} on people and houses.<\/li>\n
  9. The modern airplane toilet system was patented by James Kemper in the 1970s and was first used by Boeing in 1982, but didn\u2019t become an industry-standard till much later.<\/li>\n
  10. These toilets have a Teflon (non-stick) toilet bowl and powerful vacuum suction.<\/li>\n
  11. Every time we flush an airplane toilet, a valve opens, sucks the waste, and takes it to a sealed tank located at the rear of the airplane.<\/li>\n
  12. Because the vacuum sucks everything away, very little disinfecting liquid Skychem is required, which usually shows up in the bowl as a tiny amount of blue liquid.<\/li>\n
  13. When the aircraft lands, the waste is disposed of in the airport\u2019s underground sewage system.<\/li>\n
  14. The tank is thoroughly cleaned and sanitized by the waste crew on-ground at the airport, who are employed specifically for this purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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