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Portable Sanitation Association International News
BIWEEKLY EDITION JUNE 24, 2020
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A Tipping Point for Portable Sanitation…continued from page 17
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• Job site leaders are insisting on units being
serviced multiple times a week. COVID-19 has
made them aware that viruses can survive outside
the body for a long time. While it is true that this
particular virus is heartier, more contagious, and more
dangerous than many, the fact that viruses stay viable
on surfaces is not news. All forms of hepatitis endure
on surfaces for days—sometimes months—and it,
too, is contagious. Only with COVID-19 have these
customers decided to pay attention.
The fact is, we need to "make lemonade out of lemons."
Used as a tipping point, the reactions we are seeing to this dreadful COVID-19 pandemic can help bring about
long-term changes in user expectations, standards, and enforcement. This will pave the way to improved portable
sanitation experiences all around.
The PSAI already had a plan to transform the image of our industry, and
now we are kicking it up a notch. We invite you to get involved. With
more companies working together, these COVID-19-fueled changes will
become impossible to roll back.
If you are not already a Member, join us.
If you feel you can't join right now, call to learn how you can be part of
the solution as a nonmember.
Everyone can do something to help.
Someday these difficult times will be over. When we look back on them,
let's hope that what we remember most is how we pulled together,
how our efforts saved lives in the short term, and how our industry was
transformed for the long term.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." v
