Team+Hand+Dryers

**Team Hand Dryers** Garrett Stephanie Shane

Topic
 Hand Dryers Wiki -Wikipedia article on how hand dryers affect the environment, your health and your wallet. This article can help inform us about the pros and cons of switching from paper towels to hand dryers.

Hand Dryers vs Paper Towels

Goals
Papertowls cause much more waste than hand dryers do. Hand dryers are much more eco-friendly and cost less money in the long run. Money which can be spent on things such as new gym and sports equiptment, field trips and fun events (school plays, sports games, activities, etc.). Our audience is the school administration group which handles our finances. We want students in the school to be aware how much better the hand dryers are for themselves and their school.

" We are going to create a PSA that will.... "
Be interesting to the students and faculty in the school. Something to grab their attention. Claymation?

Data Collection
We have calclated that we spend about $7500 on paper towels a year. (est). Costs of Paper Towels vs Hand Dryers - This website calculates how much money the school spends on paper towels vs how much would be spent on hand dryers.

Research Proposal
Goal: Our goal is to create a PSA that will make the student and faculty body aware of how much our school and the economy would benefit if we switch from paper towels to hand dryers in the bathrooms. Objectives: 1. We will interview the custodians and "Skip" Bandini to find out how many rolls of paper towels are purchased in a typical school year. We will ask them how often they replace the paper towels in the bathrooms and how many times they have to change the trash cans (without paper towels, there would be much less paper and plastic wasted in the bathrooms). We will then ask the school administration how much money they spent on paper towels per year. Since hand dryers are much less wasteful and last longer than a roll of paper towels, not only will the use of paper and plastic in this school be cut down, the costs of each will be reduced, too. With this information, we can give very clear facts in our argument of paper towels vs hand dryers. 2. Using online resources, we will gather arguments for why hand dryers are much better for the economy and school than paper towels. -Paper towels cannot be recycled. -Using a hand dryer uses less energy than making a roll of paper towels -A hand dryer typically lasts about a decade. A roll of paper towels lasts for a few days.