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'Just one in four Dutch public toilets is properly clean’
30th of November 2016
Only around one in four public toilets in the Netherlands is properly clean according to a trade magazine survey.
Just 27 per cent were found to have good standards of hygiene compared with 38 per cent in the same survey last year.
Random checks were carried out at 150 washrooms throughout the country by trade magazine Service Management in conjunction with washroom hygiene brand Tork. Samples were taken from toilet seats, flush handles, taps and door handles.
Toilet seats were found to be the most unhygienic surfaces with sub-standard readings noted in 42 per cent of cases. Door handles were the next largest offenders with 36 per cent found to be dirty.
Of the four categories of washroom inspected - hospitality, healthcare, retail and leisure centres - the hospitality sector fared best with 36 per cent of washrooms considered to be thoroughly clean. The figures for healthcare, retail and leisure centres were 30, 27 and just 16 per cent respectively.
In general, women's washrooms tended to be more hygienic than the gents'. And the cleanest washroom inspected was at the Wageningen branch of Bagels and Beans, which scored a 10 out 10 for hygiene.
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