Originally Posted by
eyecue
Okay once again its the people on this board that insist that TSA is telling people that they cant take liquids on a plane because they may be explosive therefore they should be treated as hazmat. If they were treated as hazmat, as you well know, the cost to dispose of them would be astronomical. The purpose of the no liquid over 3.4 oz is to prevent any possible binary explosives from getting on. It is a deterrent to someone thinking about it. Remember in hazmat training that if you know that it is, or you discover that it is, then it is YOUR responsibility to properly dispose of it. Since we dont know and we are not allowed to know then it is treated as a plain liquid. ORM/D wont make it either.
When the TSA confiscates liquid from a passenger, they must assume it is something like concentrated hydrogen peroxide, acetone or some acid (the components of the type explosive the TSA fears). Each of these are hazmats and should be treated by the TSA as such. There is no way they should believe that the liquid is innocuous, if they believe that why did they confiscate it? As for the cost, well it's for the environment!
The simplest solution to the TSA giving what they confiscate to anyone is to uncap the container before disposing of it.