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Air Dryers
Each year, schools spend tens of thousands of dollars on paper towels for bathrooms and classrooms. Air dryers in each bathroom would be the ideal way to go green.
Air dryers and paper towels both consume energy, but air dryers have a smaller environmental cost. Manufacturing paper, packaging it and transporting it from mills to schools uses energy. Rooms with paper towels need to be cleaned more often, and discarded paper must be sent to landfills.
Air dryers, by contrast, need energy during their manufacture, and once installed, only consume energy during drying.
Various studies, such as this one by the Climate Conservancy, have found air dryers to have a smaller impact on the environment than paper towels.
The Stamford school system is planning to run a pilot test of electric air dryers in teachers' restrooms.
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