Justice

Solving the Public Poop Problem

San Francisco considers a plan for cheap public toilets that compost
Flickr/Andrew Choi

Urination and defecation are human needs that the modern city handles very well, in private at least. Mass centralized sewage systems and waste treatment facilities take away our bodily waste and deal with it so we don’t have to.

But in public, cities have a much spottier record of addressing these needs.