User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Brazil

Public toilets in Brazil are found at a rate of around one per 100,000 people. There is a mix of pit and squat toilets, and most do not provide toilet paper. A few have been recognized by Lonely Planet.

Public toilets
The local word for public toilet is banheiro.

A 2021 study found there was one public toilet per 100,000 people. Public pay toilets are common. The typical charge to use a public toilet is R$0.50 - R$1.00. There is a mix of pit and squat toilets, and most do not provide toilet paper.

Public toilets in Bahia, Brazil at a sanctuary for leatherback turtles were listed in a 2016 Lonely Planet guide to the 100 best toilets in the world because of their view. In 2018, Lonely Planet labeled the public toilets at Jericoacoara Beach as one of the fifteen most interesting  in the world. The his and her toilets were built with locally sourced materials after the beach became popular as a result of The Washington Post declaring it one of the best in the world.

WaterAid ranked the country as one of the ten worst in the world in 2016 for urban access to safe and private toilets. Despite this, many people in Brazil bathe or shower multiple times a day.

Regional and global situation impacting public toilets in Brazil
Public toilet access around the world is most acute in the Global South, with around 3.6 billion people, 40% of the world's total population, lacking access to any toilet facilities. 2.3 people in the the Global South do not have toilet facilities in their residence. Despite the fact that the United Nation made a declaration in 2010 that clean water and sanitation is a human right, little has been done in many places towards addressing this on a wider level.

German notions of cultural codes around the usage of public toilets has been exported to many parts of the world as a result of German colonialism, but many places in Africa and the Pacific continue to challenge those norms around cleanliness well into the 2010s. Local resistance to toilet cleanliness justified further German repression on the part of the local population.

An issue in developing countries is toilet access in schools. Only 46% of schools in developing countries have them. In the early 2000s, it was very rare for public toilets to have wheelchair access anywhere in South America. The few that were available tended to be at upscale shopping centers.

Sit flush toilets are the most common type of toilet in Latin America and South America. Most countries in Latin and South America do not have the sanitation infrastructure to support toilet paper being flushed. Trash cans are typically put next to the toilet to allow for easy disposal of toilet paper.

The Jennings & Company had installed their flush toilets in public toilets in Paris, Florence, Madrid, Berlin, Sydney and South America by 1895.