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I save up two or three canisters of hoover lint, (I have a bag-less machine) in old pillow cases. When the pillow case is full simply tie off or sew closed the top. Throw that in the clothes dryer and, presto you have a new/recycled pillow!
I had a neighbor who made handmade paper out of dryer lint. So I came upon an old window screen and I was collecting lint for months to make a really big art piece with handmade paper. I had a good stock of it, plus tissue paper from Xmas and bits of ribbon for color, but I'm moving out of state and didn't have the time to make the paper. So I threw it all away, the inner hoarder in me gritted my teeth when I did it!
Sns - try again but remember to soak and beat the lint (cloth only) until it absorbs all the water possible. Then make paper that will last a very long time. That is how they make currency paper only they use paper making machines.
That will do but it is better paper if only cloth is used. If the lint is colored, bleach with Clorox and rinse very well. Other interesting uses for well bleached and hydrolized cellulose pulp are left to the reader's imagination.
Could a person use dryer lint for insulation? You could go around to laundry mats and clean out their filters on an everyday basis til' your house was packed with the stuff. What do you suppose the R factor would be? That would be the ultimate in recycling. I can picture quilters using this lint to line their quilts. Yeah baby! We may have stumbled on to something great! GOT LINT?
Given that lint is a great tinder for starting fires I don't think it is the most adviseable material to use for insulation.
I've been using the dryer lint for mulch in the garden. The fibers were too short to spin into yarn but they make decent mulch.
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