City to Potty Train All Residents

Imagine, as a grown adult, your city trying to teach you how to properly use the restroom. That is exactly what one city in South Taiwan has started to do.

To reduce over 340 tons of waste generated daily, Tainen launched it’s new potty training program which is geared towards teaching its 764,000 residents to flush their toilet paper instead of throwing it in trash cans.





“An old habit is to throw toilet paper in the trash can beside the toilet, which causes a major stink that’s bad for public sanitation.” When “Japanese and Western visitors come to Taiwan, they find this Taiwan toilet habit to be quite poor.”

Toilet users are accustomed to using the trash instead of flushing their paper down the toilet because of pipe backup and clogging problems, however the current system can handle the load without backing up.

In addition to solving the issue of trash buildup and smell concerns, flushing the toilet paper will actually save the city $600 million a year in trash treatment costs.

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