Flying toilet

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Flying toilets after they have been used (filled) and thrown away in the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya

A flying toilet is a facetious name for a plastic bag that is used as a simple collection device for human faeces when there is a lack of proper toilets and people are forced to practise open defecation. The filled and tied plastic bags are then discarded in ditches or on the roadside. Associated especially with slums, they are called flying toilets "because when you have filled them, you throw them as far away as you can".[1]

  1. ^ Whitaker, Mark. 30 June 2007. "Why Uganda hates the plastic bag." BBC News. Retrieved 28 September 2007.