What a dump! Why ‘wild toileting’ has become a big pandemic problem

The number of people doing their business alfresco has shot up. But what else can you do when nature calls and there aren't any public loos?

Name: Wild toileting.

Age: Dates back to Homo erectus. Urinating and defecating are part of the human condition - I shit, therefore I am" (Coshito, ergo sum"), as Descartes almost said - and was undomesticated until the Mesopotamians invented toilets almost 4,500 years ago.

Appearance: Don't even think about it.

Is there a lot of it about? According to the Lulworth Estate, which manages Durdle Door and the surrounding coastline in Dorset, far too much. It says it saw a huge increase in wild toileting" when lockdown was lifted last summer. It is calling on Boris Johnson to make responsible tourism a priority when travel restrictions ease this spring.