A passenger is filmed gathering up empty bins at a TSA checkpoint after going through security, and then placing them all in a pile. Is this something you’re supposed to do?
Some people put the bin they were using away when they’re done, while others leave it behind once they remove their belongings. In some airports, TSA employees say to bus your own tray while in other airlines passengers are told not to.
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It can be polite for passengers to stack their bins after removing their belongings. That keeps checkpoints uncluttered, and speeds things along for other passengers. Eventually TSA employees will do it if you don’t, but they may not do it immediately.
On the other hand, these bins are some of the most germ-laden spots in an airport (“the bins are more contaminated than the bathrooms”). Everyone touches them, along with their belongings. They’re more crudded up than the monkey from Outbreak. That’s why I never got the ‘airport tray aesthetic’.
There’s been self-cleaning technology for years but TSA is too complacent to adopt it. One screener breaks it down for you.
“These trays are dirty. You may not see it because I cleaned it, but there was [expletive] in a tray,” Kenney said.
“So you put your vapes in a tray? Just know someone has probably stepped in dog [expletive]. Someone stepped on the ground and put their shoes in a tray,” he added.
Rollaboard bags have been dragging on the ground, from the parking lot, through airports, and across destinations and then they go in these bins. People who may be sick are touching them, coughing on them. I don’t want to touch more of these bins than I have to! TSA employees get nitrile gloves, passengers don’t. (I carry hand sanitizer, and will likely wash my hands in the lounge.)
I find that norms at each TSA checkpoint vary. Some TSA screeners act annoyed that you don’t know what they expect of you, even though it varies from airport to airport. At some airports you’ll be asked to stack bins. At others you’ll be told you don’t need to.
So unless proactively instructed otherwise, I think it’s a matter of doing whatever feels most comfortable to you (including based on norms of what others are doing around you).
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