What is more hygienic and efficient: hand dryers or paper towels

Each of us often uses the toilet in the shopping centers, cafes and at work. But have you ever thought that the safety and effectiveness in public toilets: hand dryers or paper towels? In this article, we will show the pros and cons of both.

We all know about the importance of constantly washing your hands with soap and water: 80% of infectious diseases transmitted it through the hands. And if that is necessary to wash your hands as often as possible, remembered by many, it's about the way the hand drier after washing most of us do not think.

People often argue that more efficiently and safely: hand dryers or paper towels. Today we'll talk about it.

Introducing you to the YouTube video-channel AsapSCIENCE. In it visually compare hand dryers and paper towels.

It turns out that paper towels are much faster to help remove excess water from the hands and much more effective fight bacteria: by friction bacteria are transferred from hands on a paper towel. But there is one thing: many people think paper towels rather expensive, so very often when you go to the toilet in any mall, you can not detect them.

Hand dryers bacteria can spread by air currents, so that the safe can be called a stretch.

And that's what they think about users Quora:

• According to the German study (TÜV Produkt und Umwelt GmbH), paper towels help reduce the number of bacteria by 24%, while the hand dryers only contribute to the spread bacteria.
• In the hand dryer has its own advantages and disadvantages. Advantages: no need to spend money to buy paper towels; the room will be clean; in public toilets less work cleaning woman: she will not have to clean the dumpsters overflowing with paper. Disadvantages: if the hand dryer breaks down, you spend a decent amount of repair; it emits an unpleasant noise; consumes electricity.
• The most important thing - it is good to wash your hands with soap and water. I prefer paper towels, hand dryers, so I want to get rid of bacteria, not to become their peddler.

What do you think about this?