China has a problem with, of all things, toilet paper.

Citizens have been caught using too much of it or just downright stealing them straight out of public restrooms.

Locals exposed stealing toilet paper from public bathrooms at the Temple of Heaven pic.twitter.com/1iGi8FWQMc — chinadotcom_en (@chinadotcom_en) March 6, 2017

The method of culling this problem? The Chinese government installed facial recognition toilet paper dispensers.

Toilet users will need to scan their faces and they will be dispensed 90cm of toilet paper.

Until I saw this picture, I never realized that face recognition technology for rationing toilet paper was so scary. https://t.co/aN5U5114nK pic.twitter.com/F1lFgzLTZF — Chris Buckley 储百亮 (@ChuBailiang) December 18, 2018

If the user wants more toilet paper, they will need to wait 9 minutes and scan their face once again.

Now you might think that this is the stupidest thing you have ever heard, but it has proven to keep public toilets clean as well as reduce toilet paper wastage.

Prior to this, restrooms go through 14 rolls of toilet paper per day. Now, that number has been reduced to only 4 rolls per day.

The first of these dispensers were installed in the Temple of Heaven restroom back in 2017. Soon after, restrooms all over China adopted this method or another to control public restroom abuse.

Some toilets have sensors to measure ammonium levels and dispenses a deodorizer when needed. A few installed alarms that will go off when you spend too much time in the cubical.

This movement to improve the conditions of public restrooms is thanks to China's president Xi Jinping, who started the "Toilet Revolution" back in 2015.

One might feel that this interferes with your privacy when using the toilet, but hell, I appreciate a clean toilet just as much as the next person.