According to WaterAid, the international organisation who strives to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s most deprived communities; over 2.5 billion people have to wait in line for their right to use a clean and safe toilet.

Shocked? Disgusted? Probably both as we don’t have to endure such unforgiving and primitive conditions in the UK. The third world is forever contending with either no [...]

When Europe’s leading experts in hand hygiene convene, you know that the conversations will be innovative and defining, as well as clean.

The round table event, situated in the eminent Brussels Marriott Hotel on Wednesday 3^rd March, is to coincide with the launch of the new ‘Take Control of Poor Hand Drying’ campaign by Kimberly-Clarke Professional. Key industry figureheads include Michelle Marshall, Editor of European Cleaning [...]

As much as a trip to the toilet is a private and often gratifying experience, it is still generally a taboo subject. Toilet humour, for example, can so easily divide a group, stop a conversation and occasionally offend, but undoubtedly will be embedded in our comedic society for many years to come.

How long we spend on the toilet, and more pertinently, what we do on the loo is central to anecdotes among friends and family, however [...]

As washroom enthusiasts we were excited when we found Luke Barclay’s book, ‘A loo with a view’. According to the world toilet organisation, we on average spend over three years of our lives on the loo, so it is important the toilets are not only clean, but nice places to be too. Luke Barclay made it his mission to find the loos with the best views and we think he did a fantastic job!

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It’s completely understandable as it is rational for a country, irrespective of its size and status, to respond zealously to a pandemic when it arrives. The Government and health authorities have had no choice but to take severe steps in their attempts to restrain the worse virus for over 40 years, but with the ubiquitous swine flu slowly fading, the question now is: have we all just over-reacted?

If we can reflect back to April last [...]

The average office hosts hundreds of times more bacteria than a toilet seat. We all sit here, stewing in our own putrescence while the army of microbes have us at their mercy; they are also throwing meet-and-greet parties all over our office: parties that we attend despite not strictly being invited to and parties that are monumental in size. To put their banquet in perspective, around 21,000 germs per square inch are found on work [...]

Do you have a temperature that is higher than usual? Or even feverish? Are you suffering with a headache? Have you got a nasty cough or a sore throat? Are you experiencing sinus problems, a runny or dry sniffly nose? Are you feeling very tired? Do your muscles ache? Do you feel nauseas? Have you been vomiting, or had diarrhoea?

School toilets are a bone of contention for many a parent. Memories of school toilets set a troubled foundation from which many parents worry about the health and safety of their little ones in the school playground. Catherine Pryce, 26, from Brighton, remembers “Our school loos were vile. The intimidating kids were always in their smoking and bullying the younger ones and there was never enough loo paper. There were spiders [...]

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