Hand dryers, also known as hand dryers, are sanitary ware appliances used in the bathroom to dry or dry hands. They are divided into induction automatic hand dryers and manual hand dryers. It is mainly used in hotels, restaurants, scientific research institutions, hospitals, public entertainment places and public restrooms. Do you choose to dry your hands with a paper towel or dry your hands with a hand dryer? Today, I will compare the two methods of drying hands.

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

Hand drying with paper towels: Paper towels are by far the most common way to dry hands.

Advantage:

Compared with hand dryers, there is no advantage in drying hands with paper towels, but the way of drying hands with paper towels is deeply rooted and stems from the habits of most people.

defect:

Modern people pursue a healthy and environmentally friendly lifestyle, and paper towel drying is becoming less and less in line with the needs of life, and the insufficiency is becoming more and more prominent.

1. Causes secondary pollution, and it is unhealthy to dry hands

Paper towels cannot be completely sterile, and are more susceptible to bacterial infection in the air. The humid environment in the bathroom and the warm tissue box is also suitable for the rapid reproduction of bacteria. According to research, the number of bacteria in the paper towel that has been stored in the bathroom for a long time is 500 / gram. , 350 pcs/g of paper, and the bacteria on the hands after the paper towel is dry is 3-5 times that of the original wet hands. It can be seen that drying hands with paper towels can easily cause secondary pollution of hands, which is not healthy.

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

2. The amount of wood is large, which is not environmentally friendly

Making paper towels requires a lot of wood consumption, which is a non-renewable resource and not environmentally friendly.

3, can not be recycled, very wasteful

The used paper towels can only be thrown away in the paper basket, which cannot be recycled and is very wasteful; the used paper towels are usually incinerated or buried, which pollutes the environment.

4. The amount of paper towels to dry hands is too much, which is not economical

A normal person consumes 1-2 paper towels at a time to dry their hands. In occasions with high traffic, the daily supply of paper towels in each bathroom is as high as 1-2 rolls. Long-term use, the cost is too high and uneconomical.

(The paper consumption here is calculated as 1.5 rolls per day, and the price of paper towels is calculated at the average price of 8 yuan/roll of KTV commercial roll paper in the hotel. The estimated paper consumption of one bathroom for one year is 1.5*365*8=4380 yuan

What’s more, in many occasions, there are often more than one bathroom, and the cost of using paper towels to dry hands is extremely high, which is not economical at all. )

5. The trash can is overfilled

Discarded paper towels are easy to cause trash cans to accumulate, and often fall to the ground, creating a messy bathroom environment, which is also unpleasant to look at.

6. You can’t dry your hands without paper

People will not be able to dry their hands if they are not replenished in time after the tissue is used up.

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

7. Manual support is needed behind the dry hands

It is necessary to manually replenish the paper in time; it is necessary to manually clean up the wastepaper basket; and it is necessary to manually clean the messy floor where the waste paper falls.

8. Paper scraps left on hands

Occasionally, scraps of paper remain on the hands after drying.

9. Hand drying is inconvenient and slow

Compared with hand dryers, paper towels are inconvenient and slow.

Hand dryer: Hand dryer is a new hand drying product in recent years, which can effectively avoid many problems of hand drying with paper towels, and it is more convenient to dry hands.

Advantage:

1. Saving wood resources is more environmentally friendly

Drying hands with a hand dryer can save up to 68% of paper towel, eliminate the need for a lot of wood, and reduce carbon dioxide production by up to 70%.

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

2. No need to replace, lower cost than buying paper

A hand dryer can usually be used for several years without replacement during use. Compared with long-term purchase of paper towels, the cost is also lower.

3. You can dry your hands by heating, which is very convenient

The hand dryer dries hands by heating, which is simple and easy, and it is very convenient to dry hands.

defect:

1. The temperature is too high

The hand dryer mainly dries the hands by heating, and the temperature reaching the hands is as high as 40°-60°. The drying process is extremely uncomfortable, and the hands will feel burning after use. Especially in summer, too high temperature is very likely to burn the skin.

2. Dry hands too slowly

Hand dryers usually take 40-60 seconds to dry hands, and it takes a long time to dry hands. It is really slow to dry hands.

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

3. Incomplete drying of hands can easily lead to bacterial growth

The biggest problem with hand dryers is that the heat emitted by the hand dryer itself is very suitable for bacteria to survive, and because of the slow drying speed, people usually leave without drying their hands completely. The temperature of the hands just after drying is also particularly suitable for bacteria to survive and multiply. Once handled improperly, the result of drying hands with a hand dryer will be more likely to attract bacteria than drying hands with paper towels. For example, a website reported that the amount of bacteria on the hands after drying with a hand dryer is 27 times as much as the bacteria on the hands after drying with a paper towel.

4. Large power consumption

The heating power of the hand dryer is as high as 2200w, and the electricity consumption per day: 50s*2.2kw/3600*1.2 yuan/kWh*200 times=7.34 yuan, compared with the single-day consumption of paper towels: 2 sheets/time*0.02 yuan*200 times=8.00 Yuan, the cost is not much different, and there is no special economy.

5. The residual water on the ground needs to be cleaned up

Water dripping from dry hands on the ground caused the wet ground to be slippery, which was even worse in the rainy season and the wet season.

6. People complain a lot, and the tasteless state is too embarrassing

Drying hands is too slow, causing the bathroom to dry hands in a queue, and the temperature is too high and it is uncomfortable to dry hands, which has attracted people’s complaints; the effect of replacing paper towels is not obvious in the short term, and the bad state of good and bad also makes the hand dryer feel embarrassed .

Paper towels vs hand dryers which would you use?

Questions about hand dryers breeding bacteria

The amount of bacteria that a hand dryer produces depends mainly on the environment. If the environment of the bathroom is relatively humid, and the cleaners do not clean the hand dryer frequently, there may be a situation of ‘the more the hands are, the more dirty they are’, which poses a threat to human health.

Solution: Regularly wash the hand dryer

Common hand dryers usually need to be cleaned once or twice a month. In addition to scrubbing the exterior of the hand dryer, the filter inside the machine also needs to be removed and cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. The frequency of cleaning mainly depends on the environment in which the hand dryer is used. If the hand dryer is not cleaned on time, it may catch more bacteria after use. Therefore, as long as the cleaners clean the hand dryer on time and as required, there will be no health hazard.