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Environment Agency rates Jet Towel
July 15th 2008

The Environment Agency has installed Mitsubishi Jet Towel in its Southern Regional Headquarters as part of it’s commitment to cut carbon by 30% by 2010.

The rapid dryer uses a fraction of the energy of traditional dryers, and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 90 per cent, claims Mitsubishi.

The Environment Agency has about 400 staff in Guildbourne House, Worthing, its regional HQ and has recently refurbished all its toilets facilities to achieve the greenest standards practical. This includes reduced capacity toilet cisterns, solar assisted hot water heating, PIR controlled lighting and the Jet Towels.

Jet Towel replaced paper and linen towels, so there are further savings in the cost of servicing these.

“We're extremely please with the outcomes... especially given that we've moved away from linen towel and paper towel provision to reduce landfill waste, energy consumption and carbon emissions across the board,” says Regional Facilities Manager Ian Smith.

Costs for running Jet Towel are calculated at 0.02p per dry, against 0.2p for a hot air dryer and 2p for paper towels. Jet Towel uses 4 Joules of energy per dry; a hot air dryer uses 5000 Joules per dry. In a busy office installation Jet Towel may produce 80kg of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide per year; a hot air dryer would produce 800kg of carbon dioxide.

For further information visit jettowel.mitsubishielectric.co.uk.