The installation of public toilets in a rest area generally raises several problems: the routing of the various networks, vandalism, upkeep, maintenance, investment, the environmental approach, etc. Conventional public toilets with single flush or automatic cleaning systems are massively installed in these areas. Their operation, which is often technically and financially cumbersome, poses many problems related to incivility: clogged, degraded, and very often out of service or unhealthy toilets. Who hasn’t already noticed it with his own eyes?
Among these operators, some of them wanted to explore other solutions to improve this essential service for users.
In the early 2000s, we began equipping several areas of the DIR Centre-Est in the Allier on the RN7 and RN79 (known as RCEA). About ten years later, DIR Est, together with our company, equipped two sites on an experimental basis.
To date, we have delivered more than 25 toilet blocks for different DIRs, the majority of them in the last 5 years.

• The device is adapted to the current requirements of respect for the environment.
• The maintenance costs of this equipment are much lower than those of conventional equipment, and they generate less incivility.
• There is no clogging of the evacuations requiring unclogging, and no need for frost protection.
• Maintenance personnel are very satisfied with the design of the cabins.
• Users are satisfied with the service and comfort offered, and the environmental approach is well perceived.
• The overall cost is very satisfactory in the long term (purchase, implementation, space saving, operating and maintenance costs).
• Monitoring by Sanisphère and continuous improvement of the systems over time, taking into account the manager’s comments.