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Breaking the Taboo Over Toilets?
Nov 19, 9:33 am ET
By Jason Szep
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Flushed with the success of making the island's lavatories among the cleanest in the world, a Singapore-based organization marked "World Toilet Day" on Wednesday with a call for more hygiene in public facilities.
"What we are trying to do is break the taboo over toilets," said Jack Sim, a founding member of the non-profit World Toilet Organization.
"Everybody talks about what goes into the body and no one talks about what comes out," he said.
The two-year-old World Toilet Organization (www.worldtoilet.org), which aims to raise global awareness of toilet and sanitation standards, marked its annual World Toilet Day with a call for people to speak out against poorly designed or filthy latrines.
The group is collecting tips ahead of a World Toilet Summit to be held in Beijing next year.
The group -- whose members include the British Toilet Association and 17 other similar organizations from 13 countries -- has a top-10 list of latrine essentials that Sim says will lead to "happier people."
The average person, according to the group's Web Site, visits the toilet 2,500 times a year -- meaning you spend nearly three years of your life in the lavatory.
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