Sydney is to trial portable public open air urinals in an attempt to address public urination issues.

THEY have been successfully used in London, Amsterdam, and Canada and now temporary open-air urinals are coming to Sydney to stop liquored-up late night revellers relieving themselves in public. The City of Sydney is to trial temporary public urinals on Friday and Saturday nights in Kings Cross and Oxford Street Darlingust.

The trial is an attempt ''to address some of the public urination issues occurring in [the] area'', residents were told in a letter from the council this week, and to help reduce the city's big weekend clean-up bills.

London, Amsterdam and some Canadian cities have successfully deployed the temporary urinals to cope with late night revellers. According to the manufacturer of the mobile urinal used in Amsterdam, 30 of the units put out by the city authorities each Friday night ''normally contain over 10,000 litres of urine'' by Sunday morning. Each unit can be used by four men at a time and has a 450-litre holding tank, enough for ''about 1500 individual pees''.

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