Benefits of Using an Air Hand Dryer
They Are Environmentally Friendly
According to an article from the MIT Material Systems Laboratory called Life Cycle Assessment of Hand Drying Systems by T. Montalbo, J. Gregory, R. Kirchain--air hand dryers are much more environmentally friendly than their paper based counterparts. Also, according to AsapSCIENCE, the United States alone uses 13 billion pounds of paper towels in a single year.
They Are Economically Beneficial
In the article Analysis of Hand Drying Systems by R. Bacon from Washington State University Vancouver calculations were done to show the cost per month for air hand dryers and papertowels:
