It can not be emphasised more how important the public toilets are. People even become anxious sometimes when one lav is not easy to be found out or the employing of it needs waiting. However, some concerns may appear whilst using them. Our group, the Digital Media group, is staying focus on some problems about this recently. This paper would concentrate on some problems this category of public facilities may bring, and give some examples that dealing with these issues in various methods.
First of all, there may be some hygienic risk. Whenever one user begin to employ a toilet, there could not be any clue the last user could be. If it was someone drunk, any weird incident may had happened. Additionally, even if it was someone in normal state just had used the same device, it could never get any evidence how the specific toilet was used. Something that no one would like to connect on skin would be left there, intensively or not.
Secondly, some negative effect about health may embody to any user, especially to female users. This evening, some member of our group discussed much about this segment. An essay written by Cencil (2013), brought by Milka, claims of 145 responses of women to the SDMB poll, 83 percent said they’d sit on a public toilet seat without any paper covering (presumably after wiping it where needed). Only seven percent reported they would use a paper cover or toilet tissue, seven percent might hover depending on circumstances, and only three percent hovered consistently'. It is obvious that women have much more chances to contact the public toilet directly than men do. Consequently, the risk hiding in there public and social life could be more serious. Tremendous numbers of bacteria would be transferred from one to another. This would be a catastrophe for one with low defensive ability. In addition, the venture to get infection can not be avoided. Thirdly, the enormous tonnes of water used to clean public toilet is threatening the natural resource. Even the importance of conservation about ecosystem is realised more and more, the huge requiring of public lavs is not getting less. Owing to this situation, desire of eco-friendly toilets begins to appear. Thought about these problems, some solutions are recommended. Our group found out some ideas, simple or quaint, to deal with the issues above.
This category in Korea, introduced by Mohamad can separate any user from the bacteria left on it. Although not automatic, it can make the cover of it always clean with little cost which is just some thin rubber bags. with this simple idea, much risk of get infected has been dealt with.
Mohamad also reveals another solute. This device can clean itself after one user moves out. This process can fulfill without being touched by anyone. Additionally, it can give some warmth to the cover that makes another user feel more satisfying.
This toilet does the same job, with less space no more than a normal one at present. It does not need much time to make the cover clean. The only concern is to clean the brush frequently. Compared the three kinds of new toilets, the most practical one, from my perspective, is the first one with a plastic layer outside. This is because the other two spends much time on cleaning. This would make some trouble when there is high requiring of use. What's more, they also consume more water whilst cleaning. Considering about the wicked problems, the first one can be the cusp of the best solutes.
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