W EEKLY EDITION FEB 14 , 2018
P SAI EVENTS Details: visit www.psai.org/event - calendar
MARCH 2018
2 - 3 EUROTOI 2018 in Nürburgring, Germany.
View more information at www.euro toi.com .
7 Election results announced in Association Insight
15 2018 PSAI Scholarship application period closes
21 - 24 2018 PSAI Convention and Trade Show
Portland, Oregon
FEBRUARY 2018
15 PSAI Basic Service Technician Training Course offered ONLINE
16 Informational phone cal l with Paula Meyer and Lacey Kraft regarding
the PSAI's August trip to Kenya
18 - 21 ARA's The Rental Show in New Orleans, Louisiana
21 PSAI to offer two training courses at WWETT: "Portable Sanitation and
Work Sites" and "Portable Sanitation: Preparing for Hazards."
21 - 24 2018 WWETT Show in Indianapolis, Indiana
23 PSAI to offer Basic Service Technician Training Course and Exam at
2018 WWETT Show
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The Latest Sanitation Innovation
A Toto employee has created a moveable toilet system
A moveable, flushing toilet has finally come to fruition. Toshihiko Yoshitomi
of Toto in Tokyo was determined to ease the work of caregivers and the
humiliation of those in need after watching his own grandfather suffer. His
system flushes the waste and od or through a hose into a drainage system,
but he had to figure out how the human waste could be crushed so that it
could fit through 2 centimeters in diameter. After trial and error using his
own waste, Yoshitomi developed a rotary crusher, using centrifug al force and
water, similar to the function of a washing machine.
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