INFOGRAPHIC: Fun Facts About Porta-Potties
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Fun Facts About Porta-Potties
- The modern form of the portable toilet was developed in the 1940s.
- According to PSAI, portable restrooms use 90% less water than a conventional toilet, and portable restroom use saves 45 billion gallons of fresh water annually.
- According to Numberphile, the best way for a customer to find the cleanest porta-potty in a row of units is to look at 37% of them and then choose the one they deem to be best in that sample group.
- 5,000 portable restrooms were brought in for President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
- The 1891 patent for toilet paper included a diagram showing the paper with the “over” orientation. Studies have found that 3 out of 4 people today prefer the “over” orientation.
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You made a good point that tidiness is one of the things that proper expect the most from portable toilet rentals. I’d like to know more about that because I’m planning to help my sister arrange a charity event soon. Having portable toilets there would probably be a good idea.