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Denver man injured in port-a-potty prank

No one in the industry likes having their units tipped over. And obviously as this story shows, it’s dangerous to the person inside the unit as well. Come on people. Stop tipping over porta-potties!

I saw this on the PTN Facebook group and wanted to share it here. There was a whole category about port-a-potties on Jeopardy that talked about different company names. Fun way to get publicity! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1620530944861861/permalink/3637099639871638/?mibextid=W9rl1R

Robert Damron’s PGA Tour Champions debut included hilarious porta-potty incident

Talk about a memorable day on the course. He might not be leaving his wife in charge of the keys anymore.

Came across an article about a porta-potty company in Vermont taking the contents from their units and having it processed into fertilizer. It’s an interesting concept. I wonder if it will take off or not.

A Startup Is Turning Porta-Potties Into Sources of Fertilizer – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-25/a-startup-is-turning-porta-p…[Read more]

This article gave me a good laugh. https://ruinmyweek.com/reddit/askreddit/port-a-potty-mile-high-club/. Anyone else have a good name for it?

This story is something else. Developer threatened to dump port-a-potty in kids’ NYC community garden: suit. Anyone ever have the contents of one of your units used as a weapon?

An industry-related story that caught my eye:

Portable Toilet Empire Is So Valuable a PE Firm Is Paying $4 Billion to Keep It

We all know that units are in short supply pretty much everywhere. This article is about how the shortage is impacting Maine. https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/24/porta-potties-in-short-supply-as-outdoor-events-make-rebound-in-maine/ It’s great that business is so good but it’s also putting a lot of people in tough positions. Let’s hope the…[Read more]

COVID-19 means more business for septic companies

A few articles like this have been written. This pandemic stuff sucks but at least people in our industry are staying busy for the most part. If it changes anybody’s mind about the importance of the work we do that’s a bonus.

Check out this article. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/covid-silver-lining-the-porta-potty-boom. That’s some good publicity for that business and for the industry in general. I guess it just takes a pandemic for people to appreciate the real value portable sanitation workers provide to society.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/atv6pa/construction_site_toilet/

This isn’t my unit, but I thought it was worth sharing. Those construction workers had a luxurious setup for sure lol.

There’s been a lot of these stories. Cities need toilets for homeless people to use to keep the streets clean. But the cost holds things up. What’s anyone else think about this? I’m sure lots of businesses would like the payday of renting units to cities, but you also have to think about vandalism and graffiti… not to mention the government…[Read more]

Not just something your wife or girlfriend says. Pumpers say it too. Seriously though, the advice in this article works- https://qz.com/quartzy/1592197/how-to-use-a-port-a-potty-correctly/. But good luck getting people to actually do it. The image in the article made me laugh.

Just curious about how the rest of you got into this business. For me, it was because of my dad. I used to work for him and then took over when he retired.