Please don't drink hand sanitiser just because it has alcohol in it

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Please don't drink hand sanitiser just because it has alcohol in it
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This is really something we shouldn't have to be saying, but, well, here we are saying it

cracking their way into communal hand sanitiser stations

Dispensers in places such as South Shields, South Tyneside have been broken into, with vandals putting the gel into bottles so it can be drunk. Worryingly, York-based company BusinessWaste.co.uk have been tasked with dgetting rid of thousands of damaged gel containers every week.Director Mark Hall spoke to the Independent on the matter, saying: ‘It’s happening all over the place, pretty much everywhere. We take these away for councils and businesses, and we’re seeing so many damaged you wouldn’t believe.‘It’s mindless idiocy. This stuff is 80% proof with who knows what other chemicals inside. Do not drink it.

Not only is the alcohol content high enough for you to overdose before you even start to feel drunk, but the other chemicals that make up hand gel are not remotely fit for human consumptionAs if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s often no way to tell exactly how toxic the ingredients of communal hand gels are.: ‘Two types of alcohol are used in alcohol-based hand sanitisers. The most common type contains between 60% and 95% ethanol .

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