City to Potty Train All Residents
Imagine, as a grown adult, your city trying to teach you how to properly use the restroom. That is exactly what one city in South Taiwan has started to do.
To reduce over 340 tons of waste generated daily, Tainen launched it’s new potty training program which is geared towards teaching its 764,000 residents to flush their toilet paper instead of throwing it in trash cans.
“An old habit is to throw toilet paper in the trash can beside the toilet, which causes a major stink that’s bad for public sanitation.” When “Japanese and Western visitors come to Taiwan, they find this Taiwan toilet habit to be quite poor.”
Toilet users are accustomed to using the trash instead of flushing their paper down the toilet because of pipe backup and clogging problems, however the current system can handle the load without backing up.
In addition to solving the issue of trash buildup and smell concerns, flushing the toilet paper will actually save the city $600 million a year in trash treatment costs.
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By Sun Tzu on 08-07-2008
Comment by otakuQT
July 8th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
simple and ingenious!
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
July 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am
YOU TUBE THIS
Shimajiro and the Toilets – Public Toilets
LOL
Comment by Greenie
July 9th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Pity Seoul doesn’t have this strategy yet. I couldn’t believe when I visited my friends there when they told me to throw my used toilet paper into the rubbish bin. Not pleasant.
Comment by Sultan_Azteca
July 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Actually, due to infrastructure limitations, by far most of the world still needs to dispose of their toilet paper into the can.
I throw it in the bowl now the same way as I did while living in the US (in my city sewage systems are big enough to allow you to do it), but people complain about my throwing toilet paper into the toilet bowl!
Those whose infrastructure can now afford them to dispose of paper into the drainage, are already wired to keep throwing them into the trash.
Men are a creatures of habit…
Comment by poopy
August 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
nicce. ;D
ima try that!
where can i sign up for the potty train program? can i bring my friend ashley?
Comment by poopy
August 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
im serious..