The Evening News reports that passengers travelling from Edinburgh Airport are still not following the Government set rules for liquids in hand luggage, and are forced to give up half a tonne of items every week. Since the rules were introduced in November 2006, this has included more than one million cans of deodorant.
New figures released by airport operator BAA show that half a tonne of items have been confiscated every week by security staff since rules on carrying liquids over 100ml introduced in November 2006. Aerosols account for around half of the 50-tonne haul but bottles of whisky, plastic water bottles and shaving gels and other toiletry items are among the are regularly seized.
All plastic bottles, aerosols and sharp items are recycled but the rest of the goods are binned, including the alcohol, which is poured away before the bottles are also destroyed.
Stevie Hastie, a security officer for BAA Edinburgh Airport, told the newspaper: ¡®Passengers don't really know what is classed a 'liquid', which is what the regulations talk about. For example, lots of people don't realise that shaving gel or deodorants are liquids. So they turn up at the airport, check-in their hold luggage, make their way to security then have to offload their toiletries because the containers they are in are too big. It's such a waste.¡¯ |
