The recently launched off-grid restroom is trying to be the high-end disrupter of the $1.9 billion portable sanitation industry. Designed to be an elegant alternative to the plastic toilets common on ...

A nonprofit called Japan Toilet Labo has created a recommendation mark for emergency-use toilets that are compliant with its ...

In January 2010, an earthquake devastated the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, killing more than 100,000. In October of that year, a cholera epidemic broke out. It would eventually kill some 10,000.

Some contractors are packing up their portable potties and instead using the H3 Wellness Hub. First launched in 2020, the H3 Wellness Hub comprises an enclosed, climate-controlled space that connects ...

According to the World Health Organization, some 2.5 billion people lack access to improved (ie., safe, clean) sanitation facilities, and so in 2011 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the ...

"I wanted to create a high-end and attractively-styled portable restroom that is larger and much more home-like," said an inventor, from Trussville, Ala., "so I invented 21ST CENTURY JOHNS. My design ...

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My wife, daughter and I love taking the boat on day-long adventures fishing, exploring, swimming, sandbaring and enjoying the water. It’s all fun and games until someone needs to use the bathroom. On ...

We runners have a complicated relationship with portable toilets. We're happy to see them before (and sometimes during and often after) a race, especially when we've been shot-gunning liquids and ...

Though port-a-potty is undoubtedly useful, few would call these plastic outhouses luxurious. But a new product from Jupe, a pre-fab glamping tent company, wants to change that—or at least make the ...