All About Mobile Toilets

Mobile toilets are facilities that can be moved as a whole and placed in fixed or temporary locations to provide toilet services to the public and customers.

Suitable Locations

They are suitable for stations, docks, tourist attractions, villa areas, newly built residential communities, large construction sites, squares, densely populated public places, and bustling commercial streets, meeting people's toilet needs in different scenarios.

Composition Structure

Generally, they consist of a fecal sewage storage tank (or fecal sewage treatment device), floor slab, sanitary ware, walls, washing equipment, water tank, roof, mobile device, etc. Each part works in coordination to ensure normal use.

Development History

Initially, they were made of materials such as wood, with a simple structure and function, and were prone to absorbing odors. Later, they gradually developed to use materials such as fiberglass and polyethylene, with improved performance.

Classification

• By structural form: They are divided into single-structure mobile toilets and composite-structure mobile toilets.
• By moving method: There are lifting and handling mobile toilets, and powered and trailer-mounted mobile toilets.
• By sewage treatment method: They include water-flush and waterless suction mobile toilets, circulating water-flush mobile toilets, and dry-packing mobile toilets.

Characteristics

They can be conveniently transported to the places where they need to be deployed and can be used repeatedly. They have the advantages of mobility, combinability, and convenient transportation.

Origin

They originated from the temporary and periodic demand for toilets in specific situations. Due to the shortage and unreasonable layout of urban public toilets, the government has placed them in areas where it is relatively difficult to build fixed public toilets to make up for the lack of public toilet supply and unreasonable layout. In 2023, mobile toilets were gradually installed and put into use in the scenic area along the Yellow River in Lanzhou.

Design Principles

They should follow the principles of easy mobility, economic durability; environmental protection and ecological friendliness; improving efficiency and promoting humanity. The overall structure should be lightweight, using lightweight and durable materials, with a sturdy structure. The height and width of the toilet should be controlled, and the mobile device should be complete and reasonable.

Price

The prices of mobile toilet seats vary widely, ranging from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan. The prices of environmentally friendly mobile public toilets vary according to their types and specifications, ranging from hundreds of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan.