Discussion of Public Toilet Design Innovations and Issues

infrastructure · Denman Island ferry terminals and global examples

An article discusses the challenges and innovations in public and portable toilet design worldwide, including new designs aimed at improving gender equality, hygiene, and user experience. It highlights projects such as the MycoToilet at UBC Botanical Gardens and international design contests, as well as issues with ferry terminal tissue dispensers.

This is the archive, not the newspaper. Between 2018 and 2026 this site compiled these items automatically from public community sources — chiefly The Islands Grapevine, regional news feeds and community groups. They were not written by a reporter and were not held to the standards this publication now applies. The archive is kept because it is a useful dated record of what happened on Denman, and it is labelled because pretending otherwise would be the first thing we would tell you not to trust. Current reporting is at The Denman Firestarter.

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• “At the Hornby terminal our porta-potties are to address the overflow. On Denman it seems, to address the no-flow. ... Researchers from the UBC school of architecture and landscape architecture have a novel solution: the MycoToilet, the world’s first mushroom-powered water-less porta-potty.” — The Islands Grapevine – October 16th, 2025 (October 16th, 2025)

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