Mobile Toilets in Big Cities
Mobile toilets in big cities are facilities that can be moved as a whole and placed at fixed or temporary locations to provide public toilet services.
Suitable Locations: Mobile toilets in big cities are suitable for a variety of locations. Stations and docks, as transportation hubs with high passenger flow, have a significant and periodic demand for toilets, and mobile toilets can flexibly meet this need. Tourist attractions attract a large number of visitors, especially during peak tourist seasons, when fixed public toilets may not be able to meet the demand, and mobile toilets can provide timely supplementary services. In villa areas and newly built residential communities during the initial stages of construction or when supporting facilities are incomplete, mobile toilets can offer temporary services. Large construction sites have a concentrated workforce, and mobile toilets are convenient to set up and move. Squares, densely populated public places, and bustling commercial streets have high foot traffic, and mobile toilets can compensate for the shortcomings in the layout of fixed public toilets. For example, in 2023, the mobile toilets installed and put into use in the scenic area along the Yellow River in Lanzhou effectively met the toilet needs of tourists.
Structure and Classification: They are generally composed of fecal sewage storage tanks (or fecal sewage treatment devices), floor slabs, sanitary ware, walls, washing equipment, water tanks, roofs, and mobile devices. According to the structural form, they can be divided into single-structure mobile toilets and composite-structure mobile toilets. Based on the method of movement, they can be classified as lifting and handling mobile toilets, powered and trailer-mounted mobile toilets. According to the sewage treatment method, they are divided into water-flush and waterless-flush suction mobile toilets, circulating water-flush mobile toilets, and dry-packing mobile toilets.
Characteristics and Origin: Their characteristics include the ability to be conveniently transported to any location where toilets need to be installed and can be used repeatedly. They have the advantages of being movable, combinable, and easy to transport. They originated from the temporary and periodic demand for toilets in certain situations. Due to the shortage and inadequate layout of urban public toilets, the government has placed mobile public toilets in areas where it is relatively difficult to build fixed public toilets to make up for the insufficient supply and unreasonable layout of public toilets.
Special Types: There are also some luxuriously designed mobile toilets in big cities. For example, the most luxurious mobile public toilet in Shenzhen can only accommodate one person but is fully equipped with facilities such as a human body temperature-sensing toilet, enhancing the user experience.
