BUFFALO, N.Y – Don’t touch that paper towel ... price — the hand dryer has a four-and-a-half year payback period, the researchers say. Bacteria were collected from several surfaces in the bathrooms as ...

The restroom at my office has electric hand dryers with little plaques that ... Facilities managers often complain that paper-towel dispensers result in increased maintenance work, as restroom ...

That said, the act of using paper towels doesn't require electricity, unless they're in an automatic dispenser, whereas warm air and jet hand dryers do. While the manufacturing process produces ...

My 5-year-old twins are terrified of hand dryers. When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it’s a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax ...

Those air-blown hand ... paper towels to dry their hands. The investigators measured airborne bacteria levels and found higher amounts of germs around both types of dryers than around towel ...

It's the age-old question that continues to baffle many of us in the bathroom: when you come to drying your hands, should you reach for the paper ... of hand-dryers and towel dispensers.

And it was 27 times higher compared with the air around a paper towel dispenser. Next to the dryers, bacteria persisted in the air well beyond the 15 second hand-drying time, with approximately ...

Allowing for around 5 per cent transmission losses, this means that a 1.2-kilowatt hand dryer is responsible for 2.1 grams of CO 2 when it is run for 30 seconds. Paper hand towels weigh around 2 ...

It’s the same game with the drying stage of hand-washing. Whether it’s a deafening air dryer or a paper towel dispenser you have to wave at just the right way, it’s nearly impossible to get ...

Airborne germ counts were 27 times higher around jet air dryers in comparison with the air around paper towel dispensers. The study shows that both jet and warm air hand dryers spread bacteria ...

He noted that Schilling Supply, which keeps state buildings stocked with hand soap and paper towels, had already decided to switch to enMotion towel dispensers. Both could be done at the same time.

He noted that Schilling Supply, which keeps state buildings stocked with hand soap and paper towels, had already decided to switch to enMotion towel dispensers. Both could be done at the same time.