Paper towels are recyclable and made out of recycled paper, at least. They are the most hygienic solution out there.
I still see the towel rolls around, they're a good option as well. Maintenance for (esp. public) toilets is never not going to be a thing, but it does require a bit more infrastructure to maintain (= washing out etc). But there's companies that will take care of that.
Not offering hand drying is the worst; drying your hands is arguably even more important than washing them when it comes to hygiene.
Anyway beyond that, fixing the hand dryers is also an option. Use larger but slower rotating fans. Dyson's machines have the problem that they have relatively small, high-speed motors.
They're not recyclable. If they're made from recycled paper, their fibres will be too short, like tissue paper or toilet roll.
On top of that, people might be using it to wipe anything, which could potentially ruin the rest of the recycling.
If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong.
Also, do not recycle any paper/cardboard with grease or food contamination, especially pizza boxes with grease on, they will also ruin a recycling run.
> If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong.
Hence the main problem with recycling. No reasonable person can know all the rules about plastics, what kinds of papers, etc. Why can't sorters sort it all out? Because nobody knows what to pre-sort.
Oh, come on. If you're capable of navigating normal life, you're capable of recycling. What you're saying is that you won't spend five minutes absorbing a one page document.
Recology has probably the most complicated arrangement I've had, and, well, this is not exactly rocket surgery:
Nice. What puzzles me is fast-food places with 3 bins (compost, recycling, trash) with these pictures on each -- when instead the pictures should be of the actual containers/wrappers that the restaurant uses. Wouldn't that be more helpful?
"that" in this case is the sort of things one finds in a bathroom. I don't think a reasonable person would think they ought to sort human waste with recyclable paper.
We used to have those everywhere in Vancouver. Unfortunately they got rid of them because teenagers were daring each other to strangle themselves unconscious using those things, and several people were badly injured or died.
I feel your pain too well. So many good things we could have in society, but due to a small minority of people ruining it for the rest of us.
Another poster mentioned that their child's high school didn't have any paper towels, which I can only assume is because the kids were wetting them and throwing them around the bathroom ceiling and walls to make them stick, which is something even I (regrettably) took part of as a middle school child.
I still see the towel rolls around, they're a good option as well. Maintenance for (esp. public) toilets is never not going to be a thing, but it does require a bit more infrastructure to maintain (= washing out etc). But there's companies that will take care of that.
Not offering hand drying is the worst; drying your hands is arguably even more important than washing them when it comes to hygiene.
Anyway beyond that, fixing the hand dryers is also an option. Use larger but slower rotating fans. Dyson's machines have the problem that they have relatively small, high-speed motors.