Do you prefer air dryers or paper towels?

However, even the cleanest restrooms can be a germ danger zone due to an often-overlooked restroom process: hand drying. Most restrooms offer one of three hand-drying options: paper towels, air dryers or jet dryers. read more

To answer that, you’ll need a bit of background—and for that we’ll have to drop briefly into the odd rabbit hole that is paper towel vs. air dryer research. read more

I prefer paper towels, however, using paper towels means you are generating a lot of trash. the hand dryer is environment-friendly because you do not generate trash. If the electric used for hand dryer, you are also saving the environment. read more

Research comparing these two methods of drying concluded that both the conventional hand dryer and the paper towel performed roughly the same, environmentally speaking. read more