PARIS locals are in uproar about new urinals in the city that are completely exposed – so you can see people peeing.

The new “urinoirs” are eco-friendly and have been installed on Ile Saint-Louis, an island in the river Seine, overlooking tourist boats that sail past.

4 A man is seen peeing into one of the urinoirs in Paris, which is leaking onto the floor Credit: Getty - Contributor

4 The open-air urinals do not have anything enclosing them at all Credit: Getty - Contributor

They are painted bright red and have flower boxes installed in them, with signs that point to them nearby.

Parisians have put together a petition and written to the town hall to demand that the urinals are removed.

Local resident and business owner Paola Pellizzari said: "There's no need to put something so immodest and ugly in such an historic spot.

"[The urinals] are beside the most beautiful townhouse on the island, the Hotel de Lauzun, where [French poet] Baudelaire lived.”

4 Some of them have been placed facing out onto the river Seine Credit: Getty - Contributor

She said she feared one urinal, installed 22 yeards from a primary school, "incites exhibitionism".

The designer of the "uritrottoir" - a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement - said it offered an "eco solution to public peeing".

The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens.

But Ile Saint-Louis locals said the receptacle, with no stall around it of any kind, could blight their ultra-chic neighbourhood.

One 50-year-old local resident, who declined to give his name, said: "It's horrible. We're told we have to accept this but this is absolutely unacceptable. It's destroying the legacy of the island. Can't people behave?"

Local mayor Ariel Weil insisted the devices were necessary, however.

Paris authorities have rolled out four of the stand-up male loos in spots where public peeing has been a problem, and a fifth is planned.

4 The urinals are eco-friendly and have plants growing on top of them Credit: Getty - Contributor

He said: "If we don't do anything, then men are just going to pee in the streets. If it is really bothering people, we will find another location."

Some have even branded their installation discriminatory.

Gwendoline Coipeault of French feminist group Femmes Solidaires said: "They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt."

She continued: “The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort.

"It's absurd, no one needs to urinate in the street."

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So could cities in the UK get these new eco-friendly urinals installed any time soon?

A spokesperson for the Greater London Authority said: "We haven’t got any plans to introduce public urinals in London."

Sun Online Travel previously reported that airlines may in the future install urinals to cut down the queuing time for loos on board planes.