Interesting Facts

Wikimedia Commons image by  Tristanb 27,000 trees have to be felled to provide the world with just one day of loo roll. (Demand for toilet paper is increasing and Britain is the biggest consumer of toilet roll in Europe. I don't know what the answer is.  In my defense I use recycled toilet paper, but I can't imagine a life without it all together. Flannels, washing with water - the idea freaks me out. When I'm travelling I keep some tissues on me at all times.)

A public toilet in Billericay costs more than £19,000 each year, which must make it the most expensive toilet in the UK. (The rather futuristic, revolving door, public toilet is used on average 9 times a day, and this means each flush costs local tax payers, £5.78.   Money down the drain, so to speak. You might think the best solution would be to close the underused loo, but Healthmatic, the firm which provides the futuristic WC would charge the local authority a financial penalty of £125,000 if it pulled out of its 15-year contract early.  So, I suggest that the residents of Billericay get down there and start making the most of it.) Source

The world's largest public toilet is (or maybe the largest plot of land for a single toilet) is a 200-sq meter plot of land in Ichihara City, Japan. (It cost ¥10 million and was installed for tourists to the area, but the loo is in a transparent booth! It's boxed in glass, in the middle of a spacious garden of potted flowers and plants surrounded by a two-meter-high fence, with spy satellites and Google Earth, who on earth would use it?)