Westborough business provides restrooms for presidential inauguration

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Westborough-based Clean Restroom Rentals is providing more than 550 portable restrooms to the Presidential Inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20. (Photo/Courtesy)

WESTBOROUGH – There will be a special local connection at the Presidential Inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20.

Clean Restroom Rentals, with a home office at 200 Friberg Parkway and facilities along the East Coast, is providing more than 550 portable restrooms that will be placed at the Capitol Building, West Lawn, Reflection Pond and the National Mall.

About 470 units will be the standard, one-person restrooms; there will also be 80 wheelchair-accessible restrooms, three luxury trailer units (10 stalls in each unit, plus sinks), and eight hand sanitizer stations.

“We’re super excited for the opportunity,” said Anthony Spitalieri, chief Business Development officer for Clean. “It’s a big deal for us. We were not the only bidders.”

Spitalieri said the process included placing a bid and working with the architect of the U.S. Capitol.

“There were background checks, staging yards. They were great to work with,” he said.

Most of the restrooms were delivered from Clean’s facilities elsewhere on the East Coast. The luxury trailers were provided by Clean’s Boston area division.

“They’re really nice,” said Karina Kellar, director of business operations, about the trailers.

The Inauguration joins other big events using Clean for its restroom needs, including King Richard’s Faire, NASCAR, the LPGA, Live Nation and the Topsfield Fair, among others.

“We have a really good reputation,” said Spitalieri.

In addition to portable restrooms, Clean can also provide portable wash stations and shower trailers.

Innovative approaches

Portable restrooms usually bring out the “potty humor” and stories full of stink and flat-out grossness.

Yes, the Clean folks know all the jokes. However, they also place a very high emphasis on portable restrooms that are clean, deodorized and stocked.

“We try to be cutting edge,” said Anthony Spitalieri. “We’re passionate about it.”

Steve Quintal, one of the managers at Clean Restroom Rentals, at a NASCAR event. Quintal is one of the inventors behind the Clean Tech System, designed to clean and maintain portable restrooms at high-rise construction sites. (Photo/Courtesy)

Steve Quintal, one of the managers at Clean Restroom Rentals, at a NASCAR event. Quintal is one of the inventors behind the Clean Tech System, designed to clean and maintain portable restrooms at high-rise construction sites. (Photo/Courtesy)

Sustainability is also high on Clean’s list of priorities. The portable restrooms are made from recycled plastic; the fleet of trucks has pressure washers that use less water than hoses; and the cleaning products are biodegradable and nontoxic.

Clean recently implemented a program to harvest rainwater off rooftops. After it’s drained into tanks, the rainwater is pumped into trucks, and used to clean the portable restrooms.

Clean Restroom Rentals recently obtained a full patent for its Clean Tech System, designed for use with high-rise buildings under construction.

According to Spitalieri and Kellar, portable restrooms are placed every few floors and cleaned three times a week. Before the Clean Tech System was implemented, these restrooms had to be moved, via elevator or crane, to the ground floor, cleaned, then brought back up.

The system allows the restrooms to remain in place. Using a PVC pipe and water line, a restroom can be connected to a truck on the ground; with a phone app, the technician can vacuum the waste from the restroom in under two minutes. Another technician then cleans, deodorizes and stocks the restroom.

According to Kellar, the new system is saving about $40,000 to $100,000 in building costs per month.

For information about Clean Restroom Rentals, go to https://restroomrentals.com/, or call 888-935-0009.

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