ECJ EUROPEAN Cleaning Journal

To meet the demands the fashion-buying season places on its public facilities, the city of Milan found an unusual solution during its Fashion Week recently.

Billing itself as the first ever in Europe, Milan's washroom-on-wheels has been christened with the self-explanatory name 'Toilet Bus'. Refitted at a cost of €75,000 with generous water tanks and five cubicles with properly flushing toilets, the toilet bus is designed to make up for a lack of urban public toielts at times such as Fashion Week, when the city is under particular stress.

The bus is already booked for 70 outdoor events in 2016 alone. Part of the enthusiasm stems from a problem not uncommon in densely built historic European cities - finding space for public toilets in districts where every bit of spare, accessible space is in commercial use.