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To: Vendit™ who wrote (282)	12/26/2000 2:25:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) of 430

Progress! Tuesday December 26 11:25 AM ET Beijing Scoops the Last Ladles of Nightsoil dailynews.yahoo.com BEIJING (Reuters) - Ending a century-old tradition, nightsoil collectors have cleared the last lavatory in Beijing by hand, another milestone in what has been dubbed the ``toilet revolution'' sweeping China. Armed with long-handled ladles and wooden barrels, six collectors on Saturday paid their final early morning call on two courtyard homes on one of Beijing's famous ``hutong'' alleyways. The squat-style ``draught lavatories'' -- pits that can accommodate only one user at a time -- were once common in the Chinese capital. But modern public conveniences with flush toilets have made them obsolete. Not that nightsoil collectors are now out of a job altogether. Much of the sewage from public toilets, as well as residential blocks and tourist hotels, still drops into septic tanks that are cleared by nightsoil trucks with long nozzles attached to suction pumps. The small green trucks are a familiar sight darting about the streets of Beijing on their way to the suburbs, where their human waste is spread on cabbage patches.

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