The greenest way of drying hands

12th June 2012

According to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of Hand Drying Systems done by Materials Systems Laboratory at MIT, Dyson Airblade hand dryers has the lowest environmental impact comapred to all other possible hand drying systems. LCA study with full sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, conducted in accordance with ISO standards 14040 and 14044, directly comparing the environmental impact of paper towels, cotton towels, standard warn dryers, XLERATOR and the Dyson Airblade hand dryers.

Dyson collectively scored the lowest across all possible measures. The examination included not only GWP but also potential human health impacts, ecosystem quality, energy demand, water consumption, and land occupation , and including all life cycle stages, from cradle to grave. (1= lowest impact, 7=highest impact; systems are assigned the same rank if the difference between their impacts is within 10 percent of the smaller of the two numbers).

View the full LCA report below.