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9/24/21, 1022 AM 9 Ways Portable Toilets Contribute To A Cleaner Environment <br /> - the case of Surco Portable Sanitation Products (/about-surco/), our fragrances and odor <br /> control products meet every RIFM (https://www.rifm.org) and IFRA (https://ifrafragrance.org) <br /> standard, and always have, and we have never used formaldehyde in any of our products. <br /> vie <br /> History of The Portable Toilet's Affect On the Environment <br /> The first portable toilets were born during the turbulent years of World War II in the Long <br /> Beach, California shipyards where valuable work time was lost because workers had to walk <br /> all the way back to the docks in order to find bathrooms. <br /> Someone came up with the idea to build temporary toilets and place them on the ships, thus <br /> saving time and energy. Construction took the form of a wooden cabana with a small metal <br /> holding tank. They were huge, heavy, and smelly, but better than no bathroom at all. <br /> • <br /> // A <br /> a � <br /> 4% <br /> Discover(/blog/why-trust-surco-odor-control/) why no one holds their nose in the presence of <br /> our products! <br /> Improvements In Portable Toilets Down through The Years <br /> The idea of a temporary toilet caught on, and during the the 1950s and 60s they became very <br /> popular among large event organizers and construction companies. Metal and wood were <br /> soon replaced by lighter and easier to clean fiberglass in the 1970s. By the 1980s, fiberglass <br /> https://www.surco.com/blog/how-portable-toilets-better-the-environment/ 2/13 <br />