Lint – What a waste

Every time I open the dryer after a heavy use there appears a nice smooth pad of lint.  Sometimes it is quite white, other times sort of gray. I promptly peal it off the screening that captures it and throw it into a nearby waste can.

I say again…What a waste.

My undies, socks, and shirts are slowly being blow-dried into oblivion.  All that is left is reverting to uncountable minute fibers.  The resulting fibrous pads are going into the big landfill in exurbia, or perhaps into the atmosphere by way of a mighty municipal incinerator.  Unused string can rolled into massive balls to display as a useless hobbial (should there be such an adjective) accomplishment.  Lint hardly could be balled without some compression.  Were it not pressed into some manageable form, its volume in Guinness Record proportions might fill the Superdome.

Now we come to the point.

If every automatic dryer owner in this blessed land would collect that lint the accumulated lot could become a mother lode of environmental love.  That lint could be spun into thread and woven, warp and woof, into a gigantic filter that could be suspended between Al Gore and the ionosphere to capture greenhouse gases.

Now if all of you will stuff each shearing of lint into government franked envelopes and mail them to a reactivated textile mill in North Carolina……….