ASSOCIATIONINSIGHT
Portable Sanitation Association International News
BIWEEKLY EDITION FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Page 21
Large Festivals Still on Ice
Organizers of Glastonbury, the UK's largest music festival, just
announced that they have canceled the event for the second
time in two years. As they told supporters: "With great regret,
we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will
not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow
year for us. In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth,
it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make
the Festival happen this year." Planners worry that other large
events will be forced to make the same choice in 2021.
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Compost Created from Waste
In California, Santa Monica's new City Hall East building
features "foam-flush" toilets that use very little water (three
teaspoons versus the usual 1.6 gallons) and send waste to
a compost room below. Through a vermi-compost system
(whereby specially suited worms decompose solids) that takes
18–24 months, workers can harvest nutrient-rich compost
to fertilize the on site garden. In addition, because the
composting process is aerobic, there is no foul smell.
Read the full story here.
Safety Program Under Budget
Last spring, Oregon OSHA implemented emergency rules
to safeguard farm workers in fruit orchards and vineyards.
Measures included providing more portable toilets,
using more buses to transport workers to the fields, and
reconfiguring cabins to maximize social distancing. Despite
the need to roughly double the number of portable toilets
and hand wash stations, the entire program cost the state
just $5.6 million of the $16 million allotted.
Read the full story here.
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