Nobody likes dirty restrooms. Besides the ick factor, public bathrooms can be a threat to public health because they are usually enclosed, have poor ventilation and experience high traffic daily. It would be best to have larger restrooms with better ventilation and more frequent cleaning, but that would require a costly and lengthy renovation.
Does Geberit have a solution for this? We first need to examine the dirtiest and the most likely offender for spreading diseases – the toilet flush.
Toilet seats and pans, interestingly, are not the dirtiest touch points in public restrooms because they are constantly cleaned with disinfectants. Unfortunately, the flush buttons and handles don’t always receive the same meticulous treatment.
This is problematic because bacteria and viruses can linger on surfaces. Moreover, when the toilet is flushed, it sprays aerosols into the air which can settle onto surfaces within 1.8 metres of the toilet bowl. Viruses and bacteria can then accumulate on the toilet flush.