He also warned that people may have to pay to use some public conveniences.

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More importantly, the habit of paying for sanitation, by using public conveniences, was long established among its inhabitants.

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In the past eight years, 47% of public conveniences in Britain's cities have closed: that leaves one for every 20, 000 residents.

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Delegates at the conference, partly organised by the Keep Britain Tidy group and the British Toilet Association, are debating whether authorities could charge more for the use of public conveniences.

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The public will increasingly demand its security, integrity, and its many conveniences such as reduced queuing time for payments using payWave, PayPass, or ExpressPay, with a plastic card or mobile phone.

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