Lowly no longer: 13 productive uses for dryer lint
Posted
Jan 07 2008, 04:34 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Just think of the waste: All these years you've been throwing away dryer lint when you could have been putting it to perfectly good use. Who woulda thunk it? In a post that ranks right up there with Leah Ingram's about things you didn't know you could compost (human hair is among them), Stephanie at Stop the Ride offers "13 ways to use dryer lint." Make that lint work for you as a fire starter in the fireplace, as lint paper and lint papier-mâché. Give it to critters for nesting material.
Stephanie says you can use lint for plant mulch or put it in the bottom of planters to keep soil in while allowing excess water to drain. How about lint as packing material? Or you can return it to its previous state by spinning it and knitting a sweater. Got an old sock? Fill it with lint for a homemade door draft stopper.
