Hand dryers in public restrooms are often touted as a more environmentally friendly way of drying your hands. However, a new study is questioning whether the hot air method is sanitary. Indeed, the ...

The University of Tennessee announced this week that it will move primarily to hand dryers over paper towels in campus bathrooms. The university says its been composting towels since 2013, but too ...

HealthDay News — Air-blown hand dryers in public restrooms may spread far more germs compared with conventional paper towels, according to a study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection. “The ...

It’s long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing ...

(CBS) --Hand dryers in public washrooms should be a clean way to dry your hands, but are some harboring potentially dangerous bacteria? CBS 2's Dave Savini tested filthy-looking hand dryers. The CBS 2 ...

Given the choice between noisy hand dryers and tree-felling paper towels, dryers are the better option, right? Maybe not, at least when it comes to your health. A University of Leeds study finds hand ...

Paper towels may be a better choice than electric dryers for hand hygiene, according to a study led by a researcher at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The researcher ...

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 ...