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The only acceptable short-term solution I can think of at the moment is simply to increase the cleaning until the bathrooms are always acceptable. There are so
by teddyh 4y ago
The only acceptable short-term solution I can think of at the moment is simply to increase the cleaning until the bathrooms are always acceptable. There are some things which could be done to turn this from prohibitively expensive to simply very expensive one: One idea mentioned in the article is to turn a tradidional timer-based activity to a level-based trigger; i.e. if you have two bathrooms at the same location, and a reporting function so that every time someone sees an unacceptable bathroom, it is promptly cleaned while the other bathroom provides redundancy. This way, it only gets cleaned when necessary instead of periodically.
This is, of course, only papering over the problem in the short run. Which is why the real solution must be to improve society.
Ostracizing people who behave badly will only make society worse.
- rightbyte 4y agoYe. People are overstating the problem with having public bathrooms. It is just that it need cleaning like hourly and be closed during night so people don't sleep there. Even if you don't have users who pee all over the ring and floor the bathroom will look like a mess after 100 visits.
- sokoloff 4y agoWe have 4 people who live in our house. I don’t track bathroom visits, but I’m pretty sure we each average 5 per day or 140 per week, with one bathroom getting 75-85% of the usage. We clean the bathrooms every two weeks and it’s far from “a mess” when it comes time to clean it, so much so that we need to have a calendar reminder to do it. I think there’s something about “the public” that’s underlying that difference.