This RestroomRenewal.org website is founded upon a simple idea:
"Public sanitation is a right, not a privilege."
Welcome to the home of a civic adventure that blends storytelling, science, and public health advocacy. If you’re here for the first time, you’re not alone — most people don’t think about public restrooms until they have to. But once you do, you start to notice: something’s broken if "The Big One" is coming. And yet, in cities and towns across America, public restrooms are often unsafe, unsanitary, or simply unavailable.
We’re all here to change that. RestroomRenewal.org is building a petition-signature movement to help enact the Public Restroom Renewal Act (H.R. Bill).
What's Coming Up?
RestroomRenewal.org + Bruce’s Advocacy Timeline + Soap or Steel
The Four-Part Story of
This isn’t just a website. It’s a layered campaign with four interconnected parts:
1. "Podcasts"
This Safer in a Germy World Podcast explores public health preparedness — from restroom design to pandemic resilience. It’s part science, part storytelling, and part civic pep talk.
2. "About the Act"
The Public Restroom Renewal Act (PRRA) is a bold, bipartisan proposal to:
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Establish national ventilation standards for public restrooms, requiring that the entire volume of air be replaced with clean, fresh air every 5 minutes.
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Create a federal registry to track compliance.
3. "Bruce’s Blogs" & Survival Guide
From practical tips to philosophical reflections, Bruce’s Bogs help readers rethink what public health really looks like — starting with the most overlooked space in America: the public restroom.
“We call it ‘The Big One,’ and we believe America should be ready. Or we can wait—and let the flag wave over a body-bag shortage crisis we could’ve prevented. A spade for a spade: we’ll be burying our dead. Just saying… the Public Restroom Renewal Act’s national standards could save thousands, maybe million of lives in the places we all pass through: airports, train stations, stadiums.” Bruce Bonnett
4. Public Restroom Renewal Act Foundation, Inc.
PRRA Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit 503 (c) (3) organization that tends to the campaign's legal issues, donations, petitions, and political outreach efforts.
About the Writer
I’m Bruce Bonnett, founder of the Public Restroom Renewal Act Foundation (2025) and author of Public Restroom Survival Guide: How to Use a Restroom for a Safer Experience (2018). In the world of advocacy, I stand as Bruce Bonnett—formal, credible, and committed to dignity in public health.
But I’m also BruceBB, the creative voice behind rap hooks, spoken word, and podcasts that bring energy and rhythm to the movement. When the message needs to stick, BruceBB delivers it with punchlines and beats.
And then there’s simply Bruce—the storyteller in blogs and personal essays, sharing the human side of this journey. Whether it’s family memories, everyday struggles, or reflections on trust, Bruce is the approachable voice that connects one‑on‑one.
Together, these names aren’t separate—they’re facets of the same mission: to renew restrooms, restore dignity, and rally communities for safer public spaces before the future pandemic, "The Big One" awakens and visits our village.
Bruce’s Advocacy Timeline
2015 - 2018, Host/Writer for www.GermFreaksClub.com
In 2015-2016, I designed a handwashing 'how-to' poster, which is featured in Chapter 3 of the book Public Restroom Survival Guide.
The PRSG book's chapter three uses hands with unpainted, natural piano-playing-length fingernails (nurses approved), whereas the handwashing poster uses shiny Red fingernail polish and lots of soap bubbles. Ten years later, it remains the most detailed and accurate photo journey of handwashing techniques in the world. I wish the WHO or CDC would use this poster. In the event of my death, I grant all copyrights of the handwashing poster to the World Health Organization and/or the Centers for Disease Control.
My research into the impact of handwashing on the local community is presented in chapter one of Public Restroom Survival Guide: How to Use a Restroom for a Safer Experience. Published 2017-2018.
The book includes over forty serious scientific/medical studies that explain how human behavioral hygiene habits affect society. Weak-hearted readers may want to begin the book with chapter two. But as Aristotle said, "There is no beginning before the beginning.", so it became chapter one instead of four.
2015-2016, Host/Writer of the podcast The Germ Free Zone Show. There were only four shows, but the voice talent for some segments included my 12-year-old twins. Best years of my life, once upon a time.
2015-2016 - I founded Health Is Wealth Press, LLC, a publishing company that published my book, Public Restroom Survival Guide: How to Use a Restroom for a Safer Experience. Vanity Press is expensive, but I look good. Designing the book cover was so complicated, BUT it gave me four months of an Electric Ladyland Disney E Ticket ride.
"Fairy tales can come true if you're true to yourself and don't give up . . . and you're lucky."
2017-2018 - Public Restroom Survival Guide: How to Use a Restroom For a Safer Experience, was published and became available worldwide, and is still available today on Amazon. Published on the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu 1917-1919, which killed over 4 billion people.
2022-2023 - Host/Writer for the podcast show called Safer in a Germy World. The first eighteen shows are available on this website.
2025-2026 - Founder of Public Restroom Renewal Act Foundation, Inc., 503 (c)(3) non-profit company.
2025-2026 - Writer for www.RestroomRenewal.org.
We are building a 'Thing ' that people grok, want to talk about, walk with, and have no doubt about why they signed the PRRA petition. Loud and proud! A 100,000-signature petition sounds like a lot; unfortunately, an attorney for a 100,000-signature campaign told me that it was very successful, but a year later, nothing changed, and the government was numb. So I've come to believe that 100,000 signatures (without the help of expensive lobbyists or donations to their good causes) may not be enough. Thus, my fears and nightmares are that when the U.S. Congress reviews the PRRA H.R. Bill, they will send it to the procedural tables lying in wait somewhere within the dungeons and tunnels of Myrist, beneath the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress, never to be seen again. But when our PRRA village answers with a 1,000,000-signature PRRA Petition — that's a 'Thing ' — a real 'Thing '. A simple bill that sets national air quality standards for every public restroom in all 50 states.
A Personal Note from Bruce
“I dedicate this adventure to my wonder-filled mom, Clara Bell, who shaped me into the man I am today.” — Bruce
Hi, I’m Bruce — What began as a school project turned into a hobby. I wrote a book. I started a petition. And now I’m asking you to explore this site, listen to the podcasts, read the blogs, and if it resonates… maybe sign the petition.
I’m not here to guilt you. I’m here to invite you to rethink what public health really looks like, and to imagine a future where restrooms are safe, clean, and ready for "The Big One" when it moves around the globe via trains, planes, buses, cars, bars, and face-to-face. Are you Ready for "The Big One"? Join us and let's be ready.
The 'Thing ' is to sign the petition. Your action today will weigh mightily on one scale of the balance.
Nothing else is needed from you—blessings to you as you farewell, wherever you fare, and thank you.
"That's it, the first step is the hardest step of a 10,001 steps." Shoe Salesman
Soap or Steel
BruceBB
Knife or a toilet seat, which one you choose?
Gun or a bar of soap, which one you lose?
Death or life, flower or stink hole,
Clean hands or a weapon—what’s the real goal?
On the block, they say steel keeps you alive,
But fresh air and clean restrooms help you survive.
Hope ain’t a bullet, hope ain’t a blade,
It’s dignity delivered when the standards are made.
From airports to public transit hubs, stadiums too,
We fight for the restrooms that protect me and you.
No hope in the shadows, but light in the plan,
Public health is the weapon that’s placed in your hand.
So dance with the message, let the rhythm ignite,
Renewal is survival, and survival is right.
Chorus:
Knife or a toilet seat—what keeps you whole?
Gun or a bar of soap—what saves your soul?
Death or life, the choice is real,
Hope in hygiene, not soap or steel.
Solo: (optional)
Angelic voice singing " Hope in hygiene rules them all."
Coming Soon: the PRRA Signers' Village
If you're still here, the PRRA Signers' Village requires you to check the box indicating you have read the book, Public Restroom Survival Guide: How to Use a Restroom for a Safer Experience. Once you've checked that box, you'll have lifetime membership rights and one vote for events, legal, and policy issues until one month after PRRA becomes law. At this time, the members will decide the fate of Restroom Renewal Org and the PRRA Foundation, Inc.