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Electric Hand Dryers vs. Paper Towels

Jul 28, 2008
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The other day I was pondering if Electric hand dryers are more economical than Paper towels. Well, according to the the green lantern over at slate.com that say:

“Both hand dryers and paper towels carry an environmental cost, so the Lantern's peers typically advise folks to wipe their hands on their trousers. But if you fancy yourself too classy to walk around in damp pants, then hand dryers are, indeed, the greener option—not because they necessarily prevent deforestation, but because they actually use less energy once everything's taken into account.”

Now you probably are asking what brought this on. Well, it started at work for the washrooms lack a electric dryer but instead a reliance on paper towels and it constant resupply is becoming an issue.

With that written, I plan on moving forward with a request to install the more economical dryers but I must find some time to do it. All and all, it just makes sense not to waste valuable resources at work or at home. In fact, I even visited a local McDonald's restaurant to check out their model and how they were handling the hand dying situation. Check out the pictures taken with the Nokia N82 multimedia computer.

My question to my fellow voxers is: have you experienced a similar situation that needed correction?

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Litter control and Anger of the day.

Jun 23, 2008
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The picture on the right is of a trash can at a local park that contained a "Diet Coke" can and the picture on the right shows a crushed and discarded "Classic Coke" can very close where I live. The problem I have with this is in Germany each aluminum can has a deposit of 25 Euro cent added to the purchase price therefore the cans are returned to the store for the money back. However, these cans pictured are not subject to German law. Therefore, in other words the perpetrator that left the evidence is just ignorance of the law or just dosen't give a damn about littering and/or recycling even when exceptions to the law are made. The bottom line is that recyling is the key to a large reduction in landfillls.