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Time for Portland Parks to follow lead of Water Bureau

January 27, 2012
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Portland Parks and Recreation draft budget for FY 2012-13 calls for 189 restroom closures.   Parks will replace half this number with plastic porta potties while laying off the Parks Technicians who understand the social environment and preform many other duties besides cleaning restrooms and hauling away trash. Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human.  Toilet...

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Celebrate First Flush of Portland Loo #5 at 1 pm Jan 31st

January 26, 2012
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Celebrate First Flush of Portland Loo #5 at 1 pm Jan 31st

Isn’t it weirdly cool that we live in a city that celebrates the first flush of every new Portland Loo?  Actually, these repeated inaugurals tell us something.  A product has met a need.  The city has provided a service citizens think is important. People...

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Building Safe Toilet Design into Shared Urban Space

December 10, 2011
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Building Safe Toilet Design into Shared Urban Space

  That’s the title of our paper presented at the recent World Toilet Summit in Hainan, China.   PHLUSH believes that public toilets should be as much a part of the streetscape as sidewalks and street lamps. But as public restroom advocates all over North...

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Meet Susan Mund, PHLUSH Volunteer

November 17, 2011
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Meet Susan Mund, PHLUSH Volunteer

  As an  all-volunteer run organization, PHLUSH relies solely on the help of dedicated volunteers to conduct outreach, plan activities, and manage online communications. So we want to acknowledge...

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Emergency Sanitation Updates

November 8, 2011
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Emergency Sanitation Updates

Awareness that Portland sits atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone and is at risk of a major earthquake has fueled interest in emergency sanitation.   Toilets for Emergencies is what we’re...

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Where does it all go? Sanitation tours provide answers.

November 7, 2011
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Where does it all go?  Sanitation tours provide answers.

Where does it all go after we flush?  How does it all get managed?  How come we know so little about how wastewater treatment systems work? These are the...

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PHLUSH is an all-volunteer advocacy group based in Portland's Old Town Chinatown. We collaborate with grassroots organizations, environmental activists, planners, architects, code officials and city managers. We receive support from the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association and Neighbors West-Northwest. PHLUSH is a member of the World Toilet Organization, a partner in the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance and serves on the global public toilet design committee of the International Code Council.

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