Eastleigh considering installing urinals on wheelie bins

A wheelie bin with urinal A wheelie bin with urinal

IT is the disgusting aftermath of the morning after the night before.

The stench of urine wafting out of alleyways and trying to avoid sticky pavements.

But relief could soon be at hand thanks to a revolutionary new invention that may soon be rolled out in a Hampshire town.

Installing “wheelie bin urinals”

is the controversial idea being considered by police and council bosses who are cracking down on drinkers who relieve themselves in alleyways, streets and by shops.

New figures obtained by the Daily Echo show that in 12 months 42 people were successfully prosecuted for urinating on the streets of Eastleigh alone and in costs and fines paid out £8,201 for spending a penny.

Chief inspector Diana Boyles said: “Urinating in the streets is considered to be a problem and both Eastleigh Borough Council and the police are looking at it.”

The Daily Echo understands the worst hit area is the alleyway between High Street and Market Street.

Environmental services bosses have now been asked to investigate the cost of the bizarre solution for the town where no public toilets are open late at night.

Dee Buffone, town centre partnership chairman, said: “It is a superb idea and one that I hope is brought in, I just hope people use them.

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“It is not pleasant and to see someone going in the street is extremely unpleasant, particularly if you are a young lady.

“I just cannot believe that people are leaving the pubs without using the toilets and then going in the street. The alleyways often have a bad smell in them on Mondays.

“We are working with landlords to make sure what their customers drink in the pub stays in the pub, we may even end up putting up posters to remind people to use the toilet before they leave, as silly as that sounds.”

The new breed of public toilets will allow people to urinate into a funnel that transfers the liquid into a compartment in the base where it is converted into bio-fertiliser. It has a separate area for rubbish.

It will be available as a unit the same size as a wheelie bin and the designer, Stephan Bischof, says that would cost around £80 once full manufacturing was up and running while adapting an existing bin would be about £40.

It would be free-standing like a wheelie bin and he said while he had never heard of it being kicked over it could easily be chained up to secure it.

He went on to suggest they are put in problem areas and emptied into a garden or park every two weeks where it would be used as compost.

An experiment is being carried out in other parts of the country including Lambeth in London.

The scheme will only target male drinkers and there are no plans to create a woman’s version of the toilet.

Comments(63)

My View from the Hill says...
11:40am Sat 20 Mar 10

Is someone taking the p*ss,

Is this April 1st already?

Cyber-Fug says...
11:42am Sat 20 Mar 10

I understood that the whole of Eastleigh was a toilet.

Is someone decided to nick one..... would they be charged with taking the pi55 ?

S/W best-item i kid you not

My View from the Hill says...
11:45am Sat 20 Mar 10

Couldn't imagine this being the most comfortable toilet for female users,

What a sight it will be,
A lady using this lavatory,
Squatting up wheelie bin,
Be careful ladies you'll do yourself in.

Jerry Parsons says...
12:00pm Sat 20 Mar 10

To my mind the opening seems a trifle on the small side..ahem!

Ozmosis says...
12:09pm Sat 20 Mar 10

If there public toilets available and open then most of the problem would go away.

rjfmusic says...
12:14pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Has the council never heard of Clochemerle?

Dusty says...
12:26pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Has the dustmen been consulted on this? Err no heard it for the first in the echo. So how does one lift the bins on the wagon with out it going all over the loaders and a bit disconcerting that an opportunity to voice questions and concerns by the staff it involves has not happened and staff hear it first in the echo. Picking peoples rubbish is one thing but i never signed up to picking up drunk peoples bodily fluids .

happysaint says...
12:37pm Sat 20 Mar 10

send them down to pompey they aint got a pot to p1$$ in

Mr BCB says...
12:57pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Notice that a female senior police officer is having an input into this ludicrous idea. There was a time when urinating in the street was an arrestable offence but I suppose it was before her time.

Airbus says...
1:07pm Sat 20 Mar 10

What a drain on resources,they should dump this idea.
Is the area covered by CCTV extra income send the tape to Youv'e Been Framed a quick £250.

IanRRR says...
1:15pm Sat 20 Mar 10

I have a great idea to extend this scheme... Lets put a fag machine for 10 year olds on one side, and a cannabis dispenser on the other side. Oh no, both of those are illegal too! What a ridiculous idea. I too checked the date, to make certain it wasnt April 1st. This really has come from thinking "outside the box". Dee Buffone? Buffoon more like!

headworm says...
1:21pm Sat 20 Mar 10

We don't need weeweebins. Open the public loos and instal cctv... simples.

headworm says...
1:23pm Sat 20 Mar 10

it'd be nice if the **** video didn't keep playing involutarily everytime you refresh the page too. **** annoying and a waste of expensive bandwidth.

Redback says...
1:26pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Ridiculous, vile idea. Urgh.

This comment is pathetic as well:
“It is not pleasant and to see someone going in the street is extremely unpleasant, particularly if you are a young lady."

Like the 'young ladies' out in Eastleigh in the small hours are some sort of virginal innocent flowers. I've seen plenty of 'young ladies' squatting on the pavement, and that's probably an even more unpleasant sight than a bloke weeing against a wall.

headworm says...
1:28pm Sat 20 Mar 10

and i must also add, the word **** never used to be censored in the daily echo so circumventing the swear filter to say **** seems a bit pointless.

The Wickham Man says...
1:50pm Sat 20 Mar 10

How can I be expected to have a dump in a thing like that? I'd slide off.

sass says...
1:59pm Sat 20 Mar 10

The pissoirs in France seem far more civilised. And how do you wash your hands?

soton1980 says...
2:07pm Sat 20 Mar 10

This is disgusting! Why can't they just go behind a bush or something? Or why doesn't the council install more public toilets? Imagine how vile it would be when putting your rubbish out to find that someone has deposited their bodily fluids in it. It is truely a sad state of affairs if our society has come to this!

juan101 says...
3:10pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Totally disgusting. How unsightly will these bins look, never mind their contents? Why do we always sink to the lowest common denominator in this country? If they caugt 42 people urinating in the street, fine them more money, ban them from pubs and make them do community service. Then shame the individuals by putting their photograph in the paper to publicise the matter so that others get the message that urinating in public is unacceptable.
I have never seen such a ridiculous idea- it almost encourages these drunks to continue with their filthy, lazy, disgustung habits.

geoff51 says...
3:32pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Not that many years ago there were many Public Lavatories in all areas of Southampton 3 in Shirley 6 in City centre etc. They have all been closed or demolished owing to vandalism, improper use etc. Is it not about time this shortfall was sorted out, if you do not provide adequate facilities to go with the ever increasing number of Pubs & clubs then people will pee in the streets & alleys.
Wheelie bin Pissoirs are not exactly the best answer, vandalproof loos for both sexes are the way to go.
Even Totton& eling have more public loos than Southampton!

D.a.v.e says...
3:38pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Am i seeing things?
If you click on the other small picture below the main one it shows someone using one of these bins and a small girl walking nearby!!!!!!
The Echo should be ashamed to even cover this story let alone publish the picture.

Dusty says...
4:29pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Has the public been consulted on this as well as the bin men? After all its the residences bins they are going to pee in, or should i say pee all over.

Once again why has the echo been told first?

Henry the cat says...
4:58pm Sat 20 Mar 10

I just wet myself laughing at that fella in the photo (he looks like he's doing something else)!!

I know us fellas are bad when it comes to Pi55ing in the street, but I recall seeing a girl taking a dump in Above Bar precint on a saturday night a a few years back. This image has stuck with me:-(

and to top it off... my security word is soil-seat (ha ha... brilliant)

septuagenarian says...
5:06pm Sat 20 Mar 10

We as kids used to sing, -- "wherever I go I take my Po, - and a little bit of last nights Echo". sorry!,- my voice has gone. - all that laughing.

warness says...
5:43pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Dee Buffone - says it all really

warness says...
5:45pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Dusty wrote:
Has the public been consulted on this as well as the bin men? After all its the residences bins they are going to pee in, or should i say pee all over. Once again why has the echo been told first?
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again

King Mush says...
6:03pm Sat 20 Mar 10

sass wrote:
The pissoirs in France seem far more civilised. And how do you wash your hands?
These cretins dont wash their hands after getting rid of a few pints through their system. Straight off to the kebab shop with stinking hands grabbing chips to stuff in their puke-laden gobs

warness says...
6:09pm Sat 20 Mar 10

King Mush wrote:
sass wrote: The pissoirs in France seem far more civilised. And how do you wash your hands?
These cretins dont wash their hands after getting rid of a few pints through their system. Straight off to the kebab shop with stinking hands grabbing chips to stuff in their puke-laden gobs
And that's just the vicar and his wife!

Pixelle says...
6:15pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Keep the public toilets open, maybe?

There is nowhere to go, in the evening/night. It's all very well to say 'go before you leave' but bodies don't work like that!

warness says...
6:17pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Pixelle wrote:
Keep the public toilets open, maybe? There is nowhere to go, in the evening/night. It's all very well to say 'go before you leave' but bodies don't work like that!
The first common-sense post on this article.

Henry the cat says...
6:20pm Sat 20 Mar 10

no need for these bins....Eastleigh is one big urinal anyway!!!

Rocket 1 says...
6:23pm Sat 20 Mar 10

This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???

warness says...
6:27pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again

Rocket 1 says...
6:36pm Sat 20 Mar 10

warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway

Brite Spark says...
6:40pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Another reason why fartnightly bin collections are a bad idea.

warness says...
6:54pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.

warness says...
6:54pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.

Vix1 says...
7:10pm Sat 20 Mar 10

And how long will it be before someone uses the excuse that they were having a wee, to flash at someone or worse??!! I think this is vile and I would think twice before visiting a town that was using such a scheme.

septuagenarian says...
7:11pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Years ago, urinating in public would result in having your collar felt,.. nuff said.

Rocket 1 says...
7:40pm Sat 20 Mar 10

warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop

warness says...
7:43pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop
Not yet.
Your southern ladies are sooo much friendlier than Hull.
Especially as I have got a 7 bedroom house (courtesy of a high paying refinery)

Henry the cat says...
7:44pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Vix1 wrote:
And how long will it be before someone uses the excuse that they were having a wee, to flash at someone or worse??!! I think this is vile and I would think twice before visiting a town that was using such a scheme.
my thoughts too.....before you know it... it would become a sperm bank for all the perverts out there.

I wouldn't bother visiting Eastleigh anyway.

Rocket 1 says...
7:57pm Sat 20 Mar 10

warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop
Not yet. Your southern ladies are sooo much friendlier than Hull. Especially as I have got a 7 bedroom house (courtesy of a high paying refinery)
Just a shame you got a 7 cm Pen*s southern Ladies are used to BIGGER things, as I said off you Pop dreamer

warness says...
8:02pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop
Not yet. Your southern ladies are sooo much friendlier than Hull. Especially as I have got a 7 bedroom house (courtesy of a high paying refinery)
Just a shame you got a 7 cm Pen*s southern Ladies are used to BIGGER things, as I said off you Pop dreamer
There is no greater emotion in this part of the UK than POST-CODE ENVY.

geoff51 says...
8:06pm Sat 20 Mar 10

When you two have finished arguing about the size or lack of it we are here to discuss a more impoortant matter.
Like when 10 pints have entered they have to be emptied some where so lets build some new loos at least in the City where all can empty in peace and not offend anybody

warness says...
8:08pm Sat 20 Mar 10

geoff51 wrote:
When you two have finished arguing about the size or lack of it we are here to discuss a more impoortant matter. Like when 10 pints have entered they have to be emptied some where so lets build some new loos at least in the City where all can empty in peace and not offend anybody
Geoff
Read the article again carefully love. That subject was already covered.

Rocket 1 says...
8:12pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Get back to the Slums you inbred 7 cm pe*is Brain sister lover, off you pop, down south we are Lovers not Fighters with Bigger Pen*ses than those that Sh*g their Sisters it's in the Genes, now off you pop PRI*CK

freefinker says...
8:17pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
Get back to the Slums you inbred 7 cm pe*is Brain sister lover, off you pop, down south we are Lovers not Fighters with Bigger Pen*ses than those that Sh*g their Sisters it's in the Genes, now off you pop PRI*CK
I think warness is right, you are a ganglion - as well as being rude, crude, juvenile, and totally out of order.
As he said at the beginning, "read the story". If you are capable, that means ALL the story.

warness says...
8:17pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
Get back to the Slums you inbred 7 cm pe*is Brain sister lover, off you pop, down south we are Lovers not Fighters with Bigger Pen*ses than those that Sh*g their Sisters it's in the Genes, now off you pop PRI*CK
Why would someone with a name like ROCKET find a subject like incest so close to their heart?
No, I am only 46, and doing very nicely round here, so I won't go just yet.
Off down the social club now, to charm some fat southerners wife into 3 minutes of passion.

Slater

Rocket 1 says...
8:28pm Sat 20 Mar 10

warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: Get back to the Slums you inbred 7 cm pe*is Brain sister lover, off you pop, down south we are Lovers not Fighters with Bigger Pen*ses than those that Sh*g their Sisters it's in the Genes, now off you pop PRI*CK
Why would someone with a name like ROCKET find a subject like incest so close to their heart? No, I am only 46, and doing very nicely round here, so I won't go just yet. Off down the social club now, to charm some fat southerners wife into 3 minutes of passion. Slater
We havent got the sort of Clubs in the South that you are looking for, why dont you try www.imakelovetomyrig
hthand.com. Off you Pop

warness says...
8:35pm Sat 20 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: Get back to the Slums you inbred 7 cm pe*is Brain sister lover, off you pop, down south we are Lovers not Fighters with Bigger Pen*ses than those that Sh*g their Sisters it's in the Genes, now off you pop PRI*CK
Why would someone with a name like ROCKET find a subject like incest so close to their heart? No, I am only 46, and doing very nicely round here, so I won't go just yet. Off down the social club now, to charm some fat southerners wife into 3 minutes of passion. Slater
We havent got the sort of Clubs in the South that you are looking for, why dont you try www.imakelovetomyrig hthand.com. Off you Pop
Fawley?

This is my last post, I'm switching off and going on beaver patrol
3, 2, 1, Gone

King Mush says...
8:42pm Sat 20 Mar 10

I can imagine many a Pompey minger dashing along the M27 to hide inside one of these street urinals!!!

We have Eastleigh roads named after Benny Hill and Heinz Burt so why not have a Linda Lovelace Terrace?

kingkong 1 says...
12:47am Sun 21 Mar 10

That is one of the most bizare and stupid ideas I have heard in years, if the people responsible for this outragous scheme were representing me I would be furious and and very concerned Just open the toilets and install a few cameras What some morons.

septuagenarian says...
6:48am Sun 21 Mar 10

Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop
Not yet. Your southern ladies are sooo much friendlier than Hull. Especially as I have got a 7 bedroom house (courtesy of a high paying refinery)
Just a shame you got a 7 cm Pen*s southern Ladies are used to BIGGER things, as I said off you Pop dreamer
You two should work it out with Pi**tols at dawn.

driverbelcher says...
7:28am Sun 21 Mar 10

Forget the insults for a bit, and watch the video thats attached to this report.

The first shot of the "weelie" bin, as I shall call it, where the camera circles the bin, clearly just shows an upturned traffic cone shoved through a hole in the side of a bin. I wonder if the echo made this themselves? If so then a definate blue peter badge required!

pyan says...
7:51am Sun 21 Mar 10

driverbelcher's right - I can just see the scene in the Echo office:

"Right, Simon, we need a video for the story on wheelie-bins with urinals."

"We haven't got one to film, boss"

"Well cut a hole in an ordinary one and stick a traffic cone in it - the people that read this rubbish won't notice..."

septuagenarian says...
11:04am Sun 21 Mar 10

I would just ignore, It's not going to happen. It's just another hare-brained idea from the Eastleigh Lib-dems, like the one that they had a year or so ago, splashed the news letter.-- "cyclists and pedestrians using the same pavement space". Makes you wonder where they head-hunt these people from.

Gladbachsaint says...
11:19am Sun 21 Mar 10

Will they also have a little step for shorter people to be able to reach ? And obviously under the Disability Discrimination Act they will need a handrail and a different colour to make sure people with poor vision can see where the aiming hole is.

driverbelcher says...
3:10pm Sun 21 Mar 10

septuagenarian wrote:
I would just ignore, It's not going to happen. It's just another hare-brained idea from the Eastleigh Lib-dems, like the one that they had a year or so ago, splashed the news letter.-- "cyclists and pedestrians using the same pavement space". Makes you wonder where they head-hunt these people from.
Splashing the newsletter that was in the recycling bin would be another risk I suppose, well spotted.

sass says...
7:17pm Sun 21 Mar 10

These bins are not very lavish!

jimbobbo says...
1:47pm Mon 22 Mar 10

warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote:
warness wrote:
Rocket 1 wrote: This is not a bad Idea, but i am afraid very Sexist, how are the poor women gonna stradle a weelie bin???
Don't be such a ganglion; read the story again
who you calling ganglion, commoner from Cadnam, you lot don't have to worry you just p**s in you'r pants anyway
I am not a local. I came here 15 years ago, intending to stay 5 years. I just haven't finished decorating my large house yet - so haven't sold up and gone back to Hull yet.
about time you pi88ed of back home then Northern Tw*t your permit has expired off you pop
Not yet.
Your southern ladies are sooo much friendlier than Hull.
Especially as I have got a 7 bedroom house (courtesy of a high paying refinery)
Why would a bachelor own a 7 bed house in Cadnam? I think someone is telling fibbywibbs.

Militant Ford Worker says...
2:12pm Mon 22 Mar 10

I think the word 'exclusive' is the biggest give away.
I must admit it is amazing to see just how guilible people like Diana Boyle and Dee Bufone really are when confronted with a bona fide reporter and a couple of statistics... common sense goes straight out the window!
Still, worthy of 'Brass Eye' this one and certainly gave us all good a laugh.
Top stuff!

Redback says...
7:10pm Mon 22 Mar 10

I hope they stick a "Now Wash Your Hands" sticker on them...

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