Restroom use fulfills a universal need, yet approval of public restrooms is often contentious. In one such case, a council deputy leader for South Lanarkshire, Scotland successfully pushed to close public toilets in his city. A short time later, he was found by police urinating in an alleyway and fined £40. In another example, a…
The chart below compares the advantages of flush vaults; vault toilets; and conventional flush restrooms. Even though they cost more than vault toilets, conventional flush restrooms are usually installed where utilities are readily available because many consider vault toilets offensive. Flush vaults designed by Green Flush make flush restrooms possible where utilities are not available. …
Making public restrooms can sometimes be ironic work. On the surface, it would seem that meeting one of the people’s most basic needs is a simple task. A room, a toilet, and maybe a sink are all that’s really required. Dig a little deeper however and it’s easy to find discontent with the standard restroom…
In July of 1990, the United States Congress enacted a civil rights bill called “The Americans with Disabilities Act” (“ADA” for short). Similar to other civil rights legislation, it protects Americans with disabilities from any kind of discrimination, most crucially the unintended bathroom facility discrimination physically disabled people had to deal with every day. To…
In the past we’ve talked about how Green Flush Restrooms can bring a flush restroom experience to areas where doing so would be incredibly difficult or expensive (places without water, electrical, or sewer: trail heads, campgrounds, parks, etc.). But what about places where putting a typical flush restroom is impossible? Turns out there are a…
When building a public restroom, one does not only consider the people that will use the restroom. There is another group of people that need to be considered and prepared for: vandals, arsonists, thieves looking for scrap, or someone bored with a hammer are all examples of the nightmare vandalism scenarios facing public restrooms. These…
In remote locations, effective strategies for keeping flush toilet restrooms open during the winter are not obvious. When flush restrooms are subject to interior temperatures below freezing, the water in the toilet bowls freezes, and freezing can cause damage to the plumbing and fixtures. Thankfully, we at Green Flush Technologies have taken on this challenge…
As the name suggests, Flush-Vaults™ are flush restrooms built over vaults that contain the sewage. Vault restrooms are typically installed in areas not served by sewer or septic systems. They utilize a subterranean containment chamber below the building (the vault) to hold waste. Most vault toilets constructed in recent years are built to meet the…
How do we install our restrooms? The typical answer is “it depends.” Take for example one of our more recent installs. A crane was ideal in this example because the restroom was placed into a large but shallow hole. To accomplish the same task using a forklift would have been more complicated and more costly….
Unisex restrooms hold advantages over gender divided restrooms in certain situations. The first and most obvious advantage is that having classical gender divided restrooms requires a minimum of two restrooms. If you are in a situation where you can only afford one small restroom building, then unisex is the only option. The second advantage is…