This goes without saying that paper is good for the environment and therefore, many people and companies which are trying to produce these and are manufacturing giving campaigns about these and are debating whether the hand dryers should be used instead of using the paper hand towels. Paper hand towels provide you a sustainable method. But there are some things which you should know about these before you invest in these or choose over these.
Pros:
Hygienic:
One study has found that people do not wash their hands long enough to destroy all the germs, bacteria and viruses from their hand and this is the reason when they use the hand dryer these viruses and bacteria still stay on the hand. But with the use of the paper hand towels in nz, these are wiped away and therefore, these are proven to be more hygienic and also the rubbing and the friction from the paper helps in killing some of the bacteria. Not only this, but the air of the restroom tends to have more bacteria and because the hand dryer only takes that air and does not filter it and spray these on your hands, these are much more likely to be more bacteria on your hand even after you wash it. Another advantage is that once people use these, they dispose these off and therefore, touching not any surface around the dryer and this is how the risk of the cross contamination is also reduced.
Faster:
It does take time for your hands to dry from the hand dryer, if you want these completely dried out and more energy is taken every time it is used but contrary to this, the paper hand towel is much faster and it gives you more efficient result as your hands are completely dried out in less than 10 seconds and not only this but no other person has to wait before you in order to get their hands dried.
Cons:
Not recycled:
Paper hand towel are waste and these will end up in landfill which means that these cannot be recycled because of the reason that these are last in the chain of the paper products and because of that the paper that is used in the making of these are already recycled several times that these cannot be recycled again and another reason is that the fibres of the paper in the paper hand towels are very thin and short that these cannot be used again and this is the reason that there can be limited production of the paper hand towels.
Decomposition is not environment friendly:
The natural decomposition of the paper produces the methane gas which is dangerous for the environment if exceeds a certain ration and most of the times paper hand towels are disposed by closing these in the plastic bags and this also adds to the damaging chemicals of the environment and all this adds to the global warming.
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