This year, the Roskilde Festival in Denmark took proactive action to protect their trees. Instead of letting festival-goers urinate on public property, they installed user-friendly, tree-mounted urinals on the trees. The urinals were designed by Dutch designers Aandeboom.
The P-Tree Temporary Tree-Friendly Urinal can be tied onto any tree using thick straps. The urinal is then hooked up to a central sewage system or connected to a tank using a pump. When the public event is over, the urinals are removed and the trees are back in their original condition, without any damage to property.
Although these brightly colored urinals look strange – and yes, funny – they actually provide an effective solution to a growing problem: Peeing on public property. And this behavior only gets worse when outdoor concerts and festivals take place.
Denmark, especially, has a creative way of describing the problem, as they report that citizens have a need to urinate on public property. With the P-Tree, people have that sense of freedom to urinate where they want, when they want, but without damaging public property.
The Dutch design is available in many colors and accessible for festivals and public gardens in the Denmark area. No news if they’re coming to the U.S. any time soon, but even with their tree-friendly properties, we’re pretty sure the P-Tree may go against the rules of indecent exposure.
Until then, we can rest assured that the P-Tree is helping other countries to limit the damage to public property, while creating a public restroom with zero limitations.
Take a look:
Image: inhabitat.com
With #7 in mind, consider that an average tree in the metropolitan area only survives for eight years.
