Creative Use to Recycle Clothes Dryer Lint?

Question

It seems there is a creative use for everything left over. In today's green society it seems there is a way to recycle everything. Any ideas for the second life of dryer lint?

Answer 1

Place it outside.  Birds and other critters take the material to line their nests.

Answer 2

You could make it into yarn and make a sweater, socks or a scarf. Have fun!

Answer 3

Fire starter for the fireplace?

Answer 4

You can make paper with dryer lint, or add it to a homemade/recycled paper recipe for interest and color.  Or rinse out dust and stuff pillows/dolls. Use it as reinforcing fiber in a matrix like plaster or clay, or in papier mache. Add texture to paint? For clean cotton lint, use it as batting in small quilted items: consider cloth menstrual pads. Have I said too much? :) You could use it instead of paper towels to clean up small spills.

Answer 5

Dryer lint can be used for making paper mache'- instead of buying cotton paper, shredding it and then wetting it for molds.

Answer 6

Put it into a used toilet paper holder and add melted candle wax -- Viola -  a fire starter!

Answer 7

Dryer Lint Do-Nots:

Yep, do nots, not donuts. I've seen some really silly suggestions for using dryer lint. All kidding aside, dryer lint is very flammable. It catches fire very easily and burns very well -- so DO NOT use dryer lint to stuff toys or crafts, puff out appliques, or make pillows. It is soft and fluffy, and compacts well, but dryer lint is not a substance that you want surrounding you in a quilt or on a sofa, nor do you want your grandkids hugging a teddy bear stuffed with one of the world's best fire starters.

Answer 8

Believe it or not, I use dryer lint to make a fire starter for my fireplace.   I fill a paper towel tube with dryer lint and then put it in the fireplace to start the fire.   It is so dried out that it catches real quick.   It's no wonder dryer fires occur.

Answer 9

if you put it outside birds will use it to make nests.

Answer 10

Makes a pretty good modeling clay if mixed with white glue and a bit of water.  It usually dries without cracking and produces a fairly sturdy finished item.

If it's lint from natural or cellulosic fibers (bamboo, cotton, linen, rayon, etc.), it can be composted.

DON'T use it for stuffing things... not only is it flammable, as noted above, but once you re-wash the item, the lint will compact and become rock-hard.

Answer 11

Stuffing for pet beds or pillows.

Answer 12

I put it in zip lock bags to keep it dry.  It makes excellent fire starter for campfires, chiminea, fire pit etc.

Answer 13

Toy animal stuffing.

I will occasionally mix colors in the drier to get a certain color range of the lint for use as dubbing material for fly-tying.

Answer 14

Here is a link for some creative uses for dryer lint.  Everything from dryer lint clay, dryer lint mache, how to use it to start fires or help birds make nests.

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/recycling-c...

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