Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands

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The long read: For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy

In the summer of 2005, a Chicago marketing consultant named George Campbell received a tantalising call from a headhunter. Was he open to an interview at Dyson? The company was secretively preparing to launch a new appliance, and it needed a sales strategy for the US: that was all the headhunter would divulge. Campbell was excited; he saw Dyson as “a company with the iconic quality of Apple, and an ability to take a basic product like a vacuum cleaner and make an 80% margin on it”.

 

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This debate is so funny. Yet nobody talks about copper-infused surfaces as the ultimate (and cheap) anti-microbial defense in washrooms.

Yes but which one is better for climate What says Greta What are we allowed to do? 😱😱😱

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