Install Hand Dryers and help the environment

• The CUHSD could save thousands of dollars by switching from paper towels to hand dryers;
• How much money is spent on paper towels here? About $8,800 during one school year.
• Each box contains 12 rolls of paper towels and costs about $49.

Information from the article “Hand Dryers Make More Than A Good Impression,” by Jordan Fox (http://www.cleanlink.com/sm/article/Hand-Dryers-Make-More-Than-A-Good-Impression--5243)

• “’An individual school could save from $2,000 to $10,000 a year,’ Ebbing says. ’Think about a school district’s savings. And for a large corporation or a big university, the cost savings could be as high as $200,000 per year. That’s a very exciting number.’”(Susan Ebbing, and American Dryer employee in Michigan);

• “American Dryer recently installed 225 hand dryers in restrooms at the University of Michigan. Annual savings from using dryers instead of paper towels came to $100,000, according to Ebbing.”

• “ a single chemical treatment to clean the pulp in a paper mill can pollute about 20,000 gallons of water.”

What is a paper mill?
It’s a mill where paper is manufactured
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If we choose to purchase hand dryers for each bathroom, the amount of money that we save in the long run would well surpass the cost of the actual dryers, the labor, and shipping.

Please help support our lovely planet and help our school’s wallet.