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Pukey2
Oops, other way round: what we call a PET bottle, truck drivers call a tiny portable toilet. We need an edit button.
Pukey2
What we call a tiny portable toilet, truck drivers call a PET bottle. Number one only, of course.
JeffLee
our evacuation location in Tokyo is a wooded park.
juminRhee
Hello Kitty 321
June 13 02:26 pm JST I think in a disaster, no one is going to be worried about finding a loo to do a number two Does a bear crap in the woods? In a disaster, me too. I can do the doo doo anywhere. No crapper necessary.
Parks? Back alleys? Bushes?
Azzprin
Handy to have if trapped in an elevator.
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bokuda
A 100Yen ziplock bag will do exactly the same function, and is more affordable and reachable.
I'm looking forward the next Japanese start-up company that reinvents the wheel.
Mark
Few years back during the 3/11 earthquake my friend used sealed glass and plastic jars and worked really well he told me, he stored them for about 2 weeks till water came back on then emptied them into the toilet.
William Bjornson
Pocketoilet! Ask anyone in the world where such a product would have come from and I'd bet 90% would answer "ONLY Japan!"
Hello Kitty 321
In the woods, maybe, but what are you and the other 13 million people going to do when disaster hits Tokyo?
therougou
just? much higher than I expected
Sven Asai
You just only didn’t get the idea of the start-up. It’s not at all about that portable toilet. It’s to easily become rich and get lots of money from investors for nothing new and here even additional financial support from the public when also jumping on that train of ‘disaster prevention’ as long as it is still a hot topic.
Hollytree
#Dave g
Does a bear crap in the woods? In a disaster, me too.
No convenient woods anywhere near where I live -(
rainyday
In the army I learned that its not that hard to create a make-shift toilet when you are out in the woods.
What IS hard is doing something with the contents of it after you've used it, which is something this invention (at least as described in the article) doesn't address.
While its cute to have a portable toilet that is small enough to carry around in a handbag, carrying a bag of your own excrement around in that same handbag is going to be considerably less so.
Joe Blow
No shirt, they'll want toilet paper a lot more.
Mocheake
I can do the doo doo anywhere. No crapper necessary.
ArtistAtLarge
This is very important. Without proper human waste disposal, cholera becomes a very real and deadly danger.
Miyanishi
Sounds interesting, but would like to see a photo of what this think looks like.
Dave g
Does a bear crap in the woods? In a disaster, me too.
JeffLee
plastic bags, a foldable bucket and TP are all you need.
virusrex
Sanitation is one of the most important public health worries in disasters because many transmissible diseases can spread easily thanks to the lack of access to toilets, this seems like a very practical idea to reduce this danger and it is likely it will help in this aspect also.
AgentX
Cute...