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The Single Weirdest Beijing Thing So Far …

August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Beijing Olympics

I’ve got to get to the bottom of this.

Here at the Main Press Center, and also at the media hotel at which I am staying, signs are posted asking bathroom patrons to put soiled toilet tissue … in a waste can next to the toilet.

No paper is supposed to go down the toilet. Even if it really, really needs to.

This seems very curious. I will check into this and get back to you on it. I assume it has to do with sewage management. Or maybe old pipes?

Anyway, I have a new nominee for “World’s Dirtiest Jobs,” or whatever that cable series was known as.

Being the “Used-Toilet-Paper Can Emptier” at the Main Press Center.

They can’t pay those guys enough.

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  • 1 Scott // Aug 7, 2008 at 8:44 AM

    This is VERY common throughout Asia, where most toilets connect to a septic tank, not sewer systems, which doesn’t handle paper well.

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