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Except for those bathrooms with hand dryers which are supposedly environmentally friendly and hygienic, and not like an easy way for the facilities to skimp out on paying for paper towels and their disposal. I have a suspicion that they are probably worse since they are high-wattage when actually used (instead of people just wiping their hands on their pants) and they blow germs everywhere, and if the Dyson ones really loud and accumulate nasty-looking water inside of them, but I have never been able to rigorously test this.


I recall there being a few studies about the Dysons that concluded they were worse than paper drying.


They also create dangerous levels of sound for children and other people who’s ears are close to them when in use.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918665/




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