Public Toilets

More RESTROOMS, Please !!!

National Mall & Memorial Parks hosted a public symposium on the National Mall Plan on November 15, 2006. The symposium gave the general public an opportunity to review documents, interact with park staff and managers and to hear speakers talking on the subject. Restrooms or lack thereof was the No.1 complaint. Designed 100 years ago and last renovated about 30 years ago, the Mall is in sad shape. Covering 600 acres that attracts 25,000,000 visitors a year, there are less than 100 restrooms and most of them are located in museums that border the Mall and are closed around 5:00pm.

The National Park Service welcomes your comments on this project. Your comments must be submitted or postmarked by midnight Mountain Time on ' 12/29/2006 by 11:59 PM.

The government of Australia takes their public toilets seriously; they have published The National Public Toilet Map (the Map) showing the location of more than 14,000 public and private public toilet facilities across Australia. Details of toilet facilities can also be found along major travel routes and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is provided about each toilet, such as location, opening hours, availability of baby change rooms, accessibility for people with disabilities and the details of other nearby toilets. The development of the Map and the Web site is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Health and Ageing as part of the National Continence Management Strategy.

Registered users can download toilets as waypoints to their GPS device and save the toilets that you would like to download. They are currently working with 26 State Government agencies from across Australia who provide more than 1000 toilet facilities to update their details on the site. They have also contacted more than 1,300 shopping centres across Australia to ask them to participate in the project, which will significantly boost the number of toilets available on the site. The National Public Toilet Map Newsletter is a quarterly email update on the project, including a summary of new toilets added in the previous quarter.

In 1999 the British Toilet Association was born. Through it's campaign activities the Association hopes to influence standards. To focus attention on issues relating to the provision of public or ‘away from home’ toilets To campaign for appropriate legislation relating to the provision of public toilets by Local Authorities To campaign for high standards of public or ‘away from home’ toilets in all areas, including municipal locations, health, education, transport, leisure, hospitality and retail establishments To campaign for the provision of an adequate number of facilities for women, in relation to the number of facilities provided for men. To campaign for adequate facilities for specialist user groups, such as wheelchair users, the elderly, babies and young children and people with medical conditions To campaign for the provision of secure, fully attended public toilet facilities, with extended opening hours. To campaign for the eradication of all types of social misuse and vandalism in public toilets To provide a forum for public toilet providers, contractors, suppliers and users to share concerns and ideas and communicate best practices To provide consultancy and information services to Association members on a range of relevant subjects To establish links with similar Toilet Associations in other countries

On Feb. 1, 2006 Paris planned to begin converting its more than 200 self-sanitizing public toilets to work for free. They currently cost 40 euro cents (about 50 cents). In a plan worked out with Decaux, the company that manages the self-sanitizing toilets, the city government will pay 17 euro cents (20 cents) in operating costs for every visitor above the 2.4 million tallied in 2005. Paris expects to recuperate most of the money spent on the toilets, called "sanisettes," by saving on street cleaning. The sanisettes come in several styles, but all have the same basic design: You press a button (or, in some cases, insert a coin) to open the door, and when you step inside, a sensor in the floor causes the door to close and lock. You do your business, then open the door and exit. The door closes again, the toilet is automatically cleaned and disinfected by a motorized mechanism, and a green light signals that the lavatory is ready for the next user. For more details and directions ...> .

There are two types of toilets in Japan: "Japanese style" toilets and "Western style" toilets. Public washrooms are usually equipped with Japanese style toilets, but the number of public washrooms with Western style toilets has been increasing especially in tourist areas. Public washrooms with both, Japanese and Western style toilets, are also commonly found. Because toilet paper is sometimes not provided in public washrooms, it is recommended to always carry a small package of tissues with you. Similarly, because paper towels or dryers are not always provided to dry your hands, it is recommended to carry a handkerchief.

Tourists to New York City suffer from the lack of public toilets, and New Yorkers do as well. For 15 years, the NYC Council and mayor have made proposals and counterproposals. But as yet, only a handful of public toilets, operated by JCDecaux, have been built, due to apparently endless complications. The good news? In September 2005 a deal was finally reached, to install 20 public toilets by the year 2007. Lawsuits are expected (yet again) over the deal; it is probably best to follow the strategies found at Public Toilet New York City.com for the time being. In the meantime, there is a list of public toilets in NYC at Clean Bathrooms in New York City

Party of Clean Public Toilets

Do you think that toiletology as a science will find its place in society? It is hard to say. I think that it might be useful for everyone, just for a broader outlook. No one has withdrawn the taboo from the toilet issue, and a certain moral ban is inside of every human being. Some people think that this subject is way too indelicate and disgraceful. Others feel that the taboo makes them want to talk about it, whether in the form of a joke or a real-life story. Yet, this is a rather serious subject. Konchalovsky was right when he said that we have to set up a Party of Clean Public Toilets. We will not be able to have democracy as long as we have dirty public toilets. An interview with Alexander Lipkov by German Vlasov for Pravda.Ru.

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