W EEKLY EDITION JULY 5, 2017
Uber for Toilets
The Charmin "Van - Go," a portable restroom
van, can be summoned to your location in
New York City, similar to ordering a cab on
popular apps such as Uber or Lyft
"Almost everything can be delivered to your door
[these days]," explained Angie McAuliffe, associate
manager of family care communications for Procter &
Gamble. So why not a restroom? The toilet paper
giant is building off of a previous New York City clean
restroom promotion by making their NYC toilet
option portable.
The van embarked on its two - day promotional tour of select New York City neighborhoods on June 21 and again on June 25.
By logging onto CharminVanGo.com, anyone in the selected areas was able to request the van for use. Upon summoning the
restroom, they received confirmation from the driver and an estimated arrival time. McAuliffe explains the reas oning behind the
two day choice, stating how "Number 2 is [Charmin's] favorite number." But she assures that, while other cities aren't curren tly
slated for a visit from the Van - Go, "the possibility is always there." READ THE STORY
A Unique Way to "Recycle" if
Attending the Oregon Solar Eclipse
How Oregon Eclipse Festival goers will make an impact on a
unique study just by using the restroom.
In the May 17 issu e of Association Insight , the PSAI covered how PRO's
are preparing for the estimated 1 million visitors that will head to the state
of Oregon for the August 21 solar eclipse. With so many individuals in
one place on the same day, portable restrooms will be in abundance throughout the state. However, the Oregon State
University Horticulture Department plans to utilize the portable restrooms at the Oregon Eclipse Festival (a designated viewi ng
festival being held at Big Summit Prairie) to make a positive envi ronmental impact out of the event.
Half of the portable units at the festival will be composting toilets. By using bio - digesters, these specific units will "digest all the
solids and turn them into liquid that could have an agricultural use." To do this, Andrew Millison, a permaculture professor at
OSU, and his team will collect samples from the tanks, which "will be transported to the Crop & Soil lab at OSU where they wi ll
be analyzed and potentially returned to the land."
To pull off this study, Millis on and his team need volunteers to assist them with the collection of the samples from festival units.
Anyone interested in helping with the study would receive a free pass to the Oregon Eclipse Festival, which will run from
August 17 to August 23. While h e is confident in his volunteer base of OSU students, anyone looking for more information
about the portable units in question or interested in volunteering is welcome to contact Andrew Millison at
andrew.millison@oregonstate.edu . READ THE STORY
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