Xela Innovations Purleve Hygienic Door Handle

CLever. one of these in all public restrooms would be nice.

sounds like lots of plastic waste for our landfills because we're too lazy to properly wash our hands before we leave the bathroom.

Great product, fair price.

In response to the 'plastic waste' comment. From what I have learned it's a self contained system and all the plastics are #2 in designation. That is, when you remove the refill it's as simple as throwing it in the recycling bin. My discussions with Waste Management of USA stated that it's a simple component to recycle and in fact ideal. As this system is typically used in controlled environments (That is, buildings of all sorts), ensuring that the refills end up in a recycling bin is actually quite easy to control. As long as the establishment that uses the system recycles, the used refill can be recycled.

Furly's response seems a little to polished for a unbiased opinion. I agree with yourtelegrapher, lots of plastic just to accommodate those with poor hygiene habits. Plus for a company that says it is "green" I am amazed that they would have a painted or dipped finish as that is extremely un eco friendly.

What uses more resources: making and recycling the 2500 sleeves or treating the illnesses caused by 2500 turns of a bathroom doorknob? I think that is the question the inventors were asking themselves. How many natural resources are used to treat one sick person? Also how many people will buy our over-priced doorknob because they are scared of feces to mouth disease transmission? Remember, it only takes one fool to not wash his/her hands to contaminate all of us who do, since the doorknob is the last thing you touch before you leave the bathroom (after you've washed your hands).

I have a much better solution(Occam's Razor), get rid of the doors all together like in most large airports. If space won't allow that, just get rid of the knob: pull to enter, push to exit (then you can use your feet) no knobs required!

Nah. Star Trek doors that open when they see you coming.

I bought this hi tech vacuume cleaner for my tile floors that cost hundreds of dollars. I came to find out that it was so high powered it literally blows the dirt away before it can suck it up. Point of the story is my thousand year old design hand broom does a much better job at cleaning my floor than this expensive techno savvy device. Like my vacuume this handle is more design than its worth. The simple easy solution is to use the paper towel to open the handle. Only a hand dryer available? Alright there are plenty of door handle designs that employ elbow or butt pushing mechanisms. If you want even more antibacterial design, use metal with antibacterial plate technology that kills bacteria on contact or has bacteria resistant surfaces.