Airborne contaminants, dirty toilet seats, mold, and mildew: Long before the coronavirus pandemic came around, the hygiene-focused among us knew public washrooms are grimy places. Drying hands is an ...

Washing your hands is one of the easiest ways to stop the spread of germs, right? Well, your office hand dryer might actually be spreading fecal bacteria onto your hands and throughout your building.

Public hand dryers, often seen as hygienic, actually blast restroom air filled with bacteria and fecal matter onto freshly washed hands. Studies reveal these dryers spread germs more effectively than ...

CBS Local --A new study has found a dirty little secret about hand dryers found in many public restrooms. Researchers say the machines which are designed to blow hot air on you are actually sucking up ...

Hand-washing always has been important, and the pandemic further magnified its crucial role in helping stop the spread of germs. But a new study also suggests the method used for drying hands can be ...

A typically cited figure for the carbon “intensity” of UK electricity generation is 0.2 kilograms of CO 2 per kilowatt-hour. Allowing for around 5 per cent transmission losses, this means that a ...

We know fecal bacteria shoots into the air when a lidless toilet flushes — a phenomenon known, grossly, as a "toilet plume." But in bathrooms where such plumes gush regularly, where does all that ...