BUFFALO, N.Y – Don’t touch that paper towel! High-speed hand dryers are cleaner, more environmentally friendly and save a bundle over time. This is what some UB students discovered when they studied ...

A lot of variables are involved in making the choice between installing electric hand dryers and using paper towels. While some of these factors are under your control as a business owner, such as the ...

Which hand dryer is best? While frequent and thorough handwashing has become a mantra in the public health arena, the job is never finished until the drying stage. Some public restrooms offer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using a hand dryer is typically considered to be one of the least nasty stages of using a public bathroom. You’ve just washed your ...

Airborne contaminants, dirty toilet seats, mold, and mildew: Long before the coronavirus pandemic came around, the hygiene-focused among us knew public washrooms are grimy places. Drying hands is an ...

Want to dry your hands but keep them clean after you've washed them? Those hot air hand dryers in bathrooms may be blowing it. And by it, I mean bacteria and other gunk. Also, a study published in the ...

In the pursuit of cleaner, safer public restrooms, hand dryers have long faced a unique challenge: how to effectively kill germs in fast-moving air. Traditional germicidal technologies—like UV lights ...

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We know fecal bacteria shoots into the air when a lidless toilet flushes — a phenomenon known, grossly, as a "toilet plume." But in bathrooms where such plumes gush regularly, where does all that ...