BEIJING - A park in the Chinese capital, Beijing, has found a high-tech solution to stop people from using excessive amounts of toilet paper. The same user will have to wait for nine minutes before they can get another strip of toilet paper. "This machine was actually designed in order to stop people from wasting toilet paper," said Lei Zhenshan, a designer and sales executive for dispenser maker Shoulian Technology. "If the paper was put in an uncontrolled device, then people will waste it endlessly," he told Reuters Television. This month, Chinese media reported that visitors to the park's washrooms were taking unnecessarily large amounts of toilet paper from dispensers.

Source: Bangkok Post April 14, 2017 09:00 UTC