really embarrased but not even going to change my name this time! AIRPLANE and LOO ?

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Ok... deep breath... here goes... sorry need to breath again... so glad I can be honest on MN and get right answer(or at least I hope I can!)okay on airplanes when you go to the loo where do you put the loo paper? There asked it! Think I have been putting it in the right place but someone said something yesterday and so I just have to ask the wise and wonder MNetters please all answer at once so I can be sure!

Down the loo!

by the way, that should have read "wonderful MNetters".

Anyone else on down the loo? Will tell you why I'm asking in a minute.

In the loo !

I always put it down the loo. Are you supposed to do something else with it

Loo paper goes down the loo. Think it then gets jettisined - but the height and speed of the plane means that it gets shredded to nothing.

The paper towels that yuo dry your hands with are supposed to go in the waste disposal "bin".

in the loo

please don't tell us you've been putting it where paper towels go?

those poor air steward(esse)s...

in the loo - errrr, where else would you put it?

(why are you embarrassed?!)

in the loo and it all goes into a storage tank

Planes don't really dump sewage in mid-air. That's something of an urban myth. It goes into a tank that gets emptied on the ground.

Regards,
Tech (feeling all educative this morning).

why embarrassed bnm?

Prettybird your answer is just what I thought must happen!

Okay I was embarrassed to have to ask because I thought I must have been putting it in the wrong place! I was in a big name cafe yesterday where a very loud woman was talking non-stop about a holiday she had been on. She talked very loudly about a man who had put the loo paper down the loo and blocked it because according to her everyone knows you shouldn't put loo paper down the loo because it swells unlike natural waste and blocks the loo if it doesn't manage to fly out of the plane etc etc. Her friend just agreed so I was thinking about the times I must have blocked the loo for the next person and not realised it was ME! Phew!

come on bnm, what have you been doing with the loo paper? We're all waiting here with bated breath...

Have a look here .

It goes in to a holding tank as Tech says (but of course, he's always right! )

It gets processsed through the kitchen and they serve it up as in-flight meals.

woops, cross-post. [gag] at thought of people putting loo paper in the bin ...

Also glad to hear the urban myth bit. There are times I have been walking and felt the odd spot of something wet and wondered if it's someones landing on me! Have just thought well I guess it happens to us all but now I know! See what I mean about wise and wonderful MNetters.

PMSL Liesel

Leiselvontrapp!

Have any of you ever been able to actually poo on a plane? I can't/won't/haven't/will never .... and I have travelled NZ - UK and back several times as you know ....

OMG ... please don't let that be the death post of this thread ... it would kill me

no you're right Ghosty - generally all poos magically disappear on that NZ trip IME...