Latest Toilets Stories

Sources with New York's Citi Field said a fan attending a Mets game wound up with her arm stuck in a toilet while trying to retrieve a fallen gold tooth. The sources said stadium security guards and emergency medical responders found the woman screaming in the restroom Wednesday during the game against the Atlanta Braves, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The woman told security officers her gold tooth had fallen into the toilet and her arm became lodged in the commode while she was...

WEST CHICAGO, Ill., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Potty Training is a daunting task, and not one taken lightly by any parent. Registered Pediatric Nurse and Neonatal Specialist Wendy Sweeney has successfully potty trained over 650 children in her private practice during the last 6 years. As a result of overwhelming demand from parents globally who have seen or read about Sweeney's Booty Camp(R) method in People Magazine, The Today Show, or any one of the CBS, NBC or ABC networks, the Booty Camp(R)...

Quilted Northern, Charmin and Cottonelle Top Toilet Paper Tests YONKERS, N.Y., April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers don't have to pay a lot for strong and soft toilet paper, according to the latest report from Consumer Reports. Store brands like Costco's Kirkland Signature and Walmart's White Cloud cost roughly half as much as brand-name toilet paper, and scored very good or better for softness and disintegration in Consumer Reports' tests. Quilted Northern Ultra Plush ($0.29 per...

"SitOrSquat" Connects Consumers with Clean, Public Restrooms Around the World! CINCINNATI, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Charmin(R), the country's leading toilet paper, is launching a new global sponsorship of the "SitOrSquat" website, iPhone and Blackberry application, designed to help people on-the-go find the cleanest public restrooms around the world. "Our goal is to connect Charmin with innovative conversations and solutions as a brand that understands the importance of bringing the...

Bay Area Company Offers Reward for Tips Leading to Outhouse Arsonist Arrest SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- San Francisco residents are restless and investigators are baffled. Since November 2008, nearly 30 portable toilets have been set ablaze throughout the city, leaving a charred trail of waste. With more than an estimated $50,000 in property damage and potential fire hazards, this is no bathroom joke. Because the Oakland-based company is dedicated to clean toilets and...

A popular Taiwanese restaurant chain that is expanding into China features toilets for seats and a bodily-waste themed menu. Modern Toilet, which has seven locations in Taiwan, one in Hong Kong and a location opening this week in Shenzhen, China, is decorated with lights and dish covers shaped like feces and seats customers at glass tables with sinks underneath, Time reported Thursday. The eatery's food is served atop miniature toilet bowls, ice cream dishes are shaped like squat toilets and...

Environment protection campaigners say extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet paper made from virgin forest causes more damage than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions, the Guardian UK reported.Green campaigners maintain that the U.S. public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply bathroom products is environmentally irresponsible.Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said toilet paper is a product that people use for less than three...

Consumer groups have criticized Irish budget airline Ryanair after the chief executive said the carrier is considering a $1.50 charge to use airplane toilets. Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary said the airline has been looking into installing coin slots on the doors of the airplane lavatories to allow planes to charge for toilet use, The Times of London reported Friday. One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet...

Public toilets that automatically disinfect themselves are used significantly less than their simplistic predecessors in the Danish city of Arhus, figures show. Data regarding seven of the high-tech public toilets being used in Arhus show that the automated bathrooms are used 11 times a day on average compared with the nearly 400 daily visitors to an area bus station's public toilets, the Copenhagen Post said Friday. In addition, the seven advanced toilets rented from the firm Afa JCDecaux...

NEENAH, Wis., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- This year, nearly six million parents will begin potty training their toddlers, an exciting and sometimes intimidating milestone for many -- and celebrity mom of two Tori Spelling, star of the reality series "Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood" is no exception. To celebrate her almost 2-year-old son Liam's potty training debut, and help families across the country say farewell to diapers, Tori has teamed up with Pull-Ups training pants to groove...