Because a recent study found that using certain hand dryers spreads 1300 times as many germs around the bathroom as drying with a paper towel ... cleaning them with soap—which attaches ...

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 ...

Simon previously worked for Dyson designing vacuum cleaners, rather than hand ... hands — paper towel or an electric dryer - is the most effective, and environmentally friendly, without ...

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 ...

A new Fraunhofer technology now monitors soap, cotton towel and toilet paper dispensers fully automatically ... As well as having to be cleaned, their soap, hand-towels and toilet paper have ...

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.

So how might we decide which of the two most common methods of drying our hands - paper towel or an ... and disposal of hand-dryers and towel dispensers. This is because we use dryers and ...