Why You Should Never Use Your Seat-Back Pocket on an Airplane

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In this video, find out why you should think twice before using the seat-back pocket on your next flight. Often treated like a trash bin, these pockets can harbor leftover food, dirty tissues, and other unhygienic items from previous passengers.

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00:00Do you use your seat back pocket on a plane? If your answer is yes, you're making a huge mistake.

00:04We all know the seat back pocket is dirty, but cleaning crews find some seriously gross things

00:08in there when clearing the plane of trash, including apple cores, gum, socks, and dirty

00:13tissues. Just think about it for a minute. A passenger is coughing into a wad of tissues,

00:17and instead of disposing of them, they stick it in their seat back pocket. Now imagine you're

00:21sitting in that same seat on the next flight and slip your phone or water bottle into that same

00:26seat back pocket. You get the picture. So what are you doing? Risking it for the storage space

00:30or avoiding the germs?

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