Posted on 03/20/2020 5:38:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Company develops money disinfection module on bank ATMs, removing 99% of bacteria, viruses, including novel coronavirus
An Istanbul-based tech company has manufactured a paper money disinfection module for ATMs to remove bacteria and viruses from paper money.
"The module we developed makes all ATMs hygienic and environmentally friendly in 15 minutes," Furkan Erucan, the Co-Founder of Money Shower, told Anadolu Agency.
With instant disinfection technology, we prevent people from being infected by all microorganisms, including the coronavirus, he said.
"There are now 26,000 bacterias of 500 types on average on banknotes circulating in Europe. These numbers are enough to make people sick," he warned, underlining the absence of efforts to disinfect paper money.
"Countries collect paper money, burn them in banknote centers and print new ones to circulate only when major epidemic diseases strike," he said.
He also noted that China is collecting and burning paper money from the market in order to prevent the spread of the virus as part of its fight against COVID-19.
"This disinfection method is quite inadequate," he said.
Erucan explained that the firm had previously developed the idea once they learned that ultraviolet (UVC) light eliminated bacteria and viruses.
He and the firm's co-founder, Kubra Karakoc, sough to improve UVC light technology and test it on ATMs, obtaining patent rights.
"We sell products to one of Turkey's leading banks," he said, adding that after pilot trials, the company aims to integrate the model into ATMs of major banks 2023.
Money Laundering
Furkan A.
Literal money laundering. Smart move. I don’t even like to think about where paper money has been; especially $1’s. Yikes.
They’re experts at cleaning money. They’ve laundered billions for ISIS.
I’d think you’d want the sterilizer to be IN ATMs, not on them, in order to sterilize money.
Wonder of USPS disinfects mail? You know, those payments and cards I do at my kitchen table, those envelopes I lick, that get processed and bundled with all the other mailings, then handled by my carrier...
I’d hate to see what it does to Armenian, Greek or Kurdish money... Destroy it, and then say that it never happened, and don’t you *DARE* question them about it...
Watch your language!!!
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We probably all should be washing our money. I was thinking that just a couple of weeks ago.
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