What to know
- Toronto’s Biidaasige Park in the Port Land’s neighbourhood has a new feature: self-cleaning bathrooms.
- Designed and implemented by Quebecois company Urben Blu, these automated bathrooms cleans the toilet bowl after each occupant and cleans the floor every 10 to 15 occupants.
- Toronto’s Transportation Services implemented three automated bathrooms back in 2008, but this is the first newer edition self-cleaning bathroom.
Toronto is home to new self-cleaning bathrooms at Biidaasige Park, but how exactly does a bathroom clean itself?
The sparkling clean bathrooms in the Waterfront park in the Port Lands neighbourhood has caught the attention of social media users, with a post showcasing the new bathrooms racking up over 150 likes and over 50 comments.
Biidaasige Park Self Cleaning Bathrooms
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These aren’t the first self-cleaning bathrooms in the city either. In 2008, Toronto’s Transportation Services installed three automated public bathrooms that can be accessed for just $25 cents. These bathrooms are located at 1681 Lakeshore Blvd. W, 1275 Lakeshore Blvd. W, and 318 Queens Quay W.
Urben Blu is a Quebec-based company that makes the specific bathroom model seen at Biidaasige Park. Here’s how these self-cleaning bathrooms work.
The bathroom has two cleaning cycles — the first cycle resets the toilet bowl and the second clears the floor of any dirt that has been trekked in.
The toilet bowl cleaning cycle lasts about 45 seconds and cleans, disinfects, and dries the bowl after each use before the next occupant. The floor is cleaned less frequently — only between every 10 to 15 people — and it works using sprinklers that washes dirt towards the drain.
According to Urben Blu, these automated bathrooms are meant for contactless use to limit the spread of viruses and germs, but users are only allowed in there for a maximum of 20 minutes. After the time is up, the doors will open automatically.
