Contrary to popular belief, these don’t recycle the same length of cloth over and over. It goes from end to end l.
That’s true, but they just end up completely unwound on the ground. It also gets progressively more brown
Can’t say I’ve experienced this a lot. I’ve seen it happen but those are exceptions. Even in public restrooms they’re kept in good condition.
The problem with them is that it’s up to the owner of the facility to make sure they are removed and cleaned in a timely manner, not simply re-rolled dirty towel, and the machine was in good repair and didn’t jam.
Quite often that wasn’t the case, so you’d wind up with dirty towel recycling or stuck.
Yes, this absolutely contributed to the spread of disease. No way it couldn’t. I had a family member in the medical field and said that the reason we didn’t see them anymore much past the ‘80s is because they were unhygienic thanks to the aforementioned issues.
So it’s not really the fault of the towel, it’s the fact that people are cheap bastards and don’t keep things serviced, clean, and maintained. It’s better to grumble and shake your hands dry rather than continue to use a jammed, soiled towel machine.
I recently talked to someone who’s small family business was in their 3rd generation of making these. What they said is that there was a big market in south east Asia.
Like we learned early covid, a lot of hygienic paper goods are made locally (not worth enough to ship), and they said that there just aren’t as many trees to make paper from there, so despite being very far away, this little family shop made and shipped these.
The person I talked to wasn’t involved in the business directly, so they/I might have some of that wrong but I thought that was interesting. Like I guess it’s enough to keep them in business but probably not enough to attract new comers?
Not true. My 2 year old just started daycare a few months back and the missus and I have been sick constantly. We’ve had all kinds of weird viruses, sores, ulcers, cough and rash.
My God. Daycares are biological warfare.
Just wait until they start kindergarten.
Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.
Parenting is just wonderful.
I hate those “dryers” who just blow it all straight into your face much more
And I thought I was the only person who had this problem! I have large hands, so lots of water splashes in my fave when using of these (•_•)
and they dry my hands too much, i need my hands moist but not dripping, and there’s no such option
These were a feature up into the mid 80’s in some places around here. They were for the most part pretty hygienic on the first pass. It was the asshole who would rewind them that made them bad.
I’m pushing 40 and I’ve only ever seen these in movies. I feel like they haven’t been in use since the 60s.
No I’m 50 and I’ve seen them, definitely wasn’t alive in the 60s.
OK, so it sounds like they died out in the 70s?
I’m 38 and the racetrack near my childhood home had these, they were always damp
I did see them around as a child millenial. Not totally uncommon in older and public buildings until early 2000’s. The airblade dryers seemed to come in right as the last of these were phased out.
I’ve only seen these used in the movie 12 Angry Men. That movie feels so modern in many ways that when there’s a scene in the washroom and one of the character uses these, I’m reminded that the movie came out in 1957
I once met a guy that went blind from drying his face with one of these at a truck stop.
For some reason this made me think of a parking ticket machine
I only time I wash my hands in a public bathroom is if I get a substantial amount of shit on them.
