Comments on: Which is more eco-friendly; electric hand dryers or hand towels?

By: DanE

DanE — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:45:23 +0000

None of this has convinced me. Without adding taking account of the energy used in manufacturing the paper towels and the energy used in fabricating a hand dryer you can’t you say one is better than the other? (not to mention the calculations in the article are wrong see Povl’s comments) At the moment the article reads like a advert for the Dyson Airblade not a well reasoned arguement.

By: Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:12:21 +0000

There’s a Streamlined Life Cycle Analysis document available to help show how the the dryers vs hand towels argument goes.

http://www.airdri.com/hand_dryers/environment/

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:32:04 +0000

If you use an electricity company that supplies 100% renewable electricity, then the CO2 emissions of a hand dryer are virtually zero. So surely this is a no-brainer?

By: YOYOYOman

YOYOYOman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:04:50 +0000

Yo You get paper towel fro trees letting out lots of CO2

By: Your Mother

Your Mother — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:36:34 +0000

I think this was a very insightful piece on the environment