The Eco-Unfriendly skies

United Airlines has recently added a $15 surcharge per checked bag each way. Basically an additional $30 added to your flight cost. Meals may soon be eliminated for Coach passengers traveling across the ocean.
No longer is the term "nickle and diming" appropriate. The term should now be "dollars and more dollars".
Flying home from Denver last Monday evening, the stewardess approached and asked if I would like something to drink? I asked for water and she handed me a mini 8 ounce bottle, and said I could have a second bottle if needed. I told her I had already brought some water onto the plane and that one bottle would be fine.
I then asked her if all these bottles were being recycled? She said no. I was shocked to think how many thousands of bottles end up in the landfills each day, since United chooses not to recycle the waste.
I would think a company as large as United should take more responsibility to instigate a recycling program to keep all these bottles from being trashed. Although I didn't ask specifically, I assuming the cans are being tossed along with the bottles.
It's time for United and the other airlines to think outside of the box on how to save some money, while also taking some burden off the environment.
United has approximately 4000 flights per day, and would seem to have at least 200,ooo passengers per day.
Scheduled airlines served 1.5 billion passengers last year. If only 1 in 10 passengers had a bottle of water, that would be 150 million water bottles not going into our earth every year.