Lemming Tracks: STOP THE WASTE!!! RECYCLE EARTH'S PRECIOUS LINT!!!!

HOW ABOUT THAT ALL-CAP TITLE?!!! AND THE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!

Doesn't that make this post look, like, you know: relevant?

Oh, and, uh, real sincere?

Let's face it: a few folks are a tad intense about Saving the Gay and Lesbian Codependent Whales, or whatever the crise de la journée is.

Earth Day #40

I live on Earth, and have a personal stake in the planet's management. But I've learned a few things since 1970. Including how to take a deep breath and give assertions a second look.

Which is why I'm celebrating Earth Day 2010 by discussing lint. Is the Lemming making fun of Earth Day, or waging a one-critter campaign to awaken America to the value of lint? That's something even I'm not sure about.

Posts about Earth Day, people, and lint:

• "Earth Day, 2010 - or - We Won: Deal With It"
  (April 22, 2010)
• "Auburn, New York; Eminent Domain; Earth Day - and Lint"
  (April 21, 2010)
• "Lemming Tracks: Ah, For the Solar-Powered Days of Yesteryear"
  (April 20, 2010)
  • My one lint-free Earth Day #40 post
• "Lemming Tracks: Observations by an Opportunistic Omnivore"
  (April 20, 2010)
• "Save Earth! Recycle Lint!"
  (April 20, 2010)
• "Need Something to Worry About? How About Lint Fires?"
  (April 19, 2010)
• "Recycle Lint and Save Earth!"
  (April 17, 2010)
• "Why is Everybody Down on Lint?"
  (April 14, 2010)

Lint: The Undervalued, Misunderstood Sustainable Resource

Come, gather round, and let us meditate upon lint.

No, really.

The stuff that builds up in dryer filters, gathers in pockets, and occasionally catches fire: lint.

(I know: Everybody doesn't use clothes dryers. The family I grew up in didn't. Times change.)

Technology's Stepchild: Lint

Although Americans don't have to wash organic fertilizer off their clean, dry clothes very often these days, we do deal with a lot more lint than our ancestors did.

If we're smart, we clean the dryer's lint filters and exhaust vents regularly. If we're not, sometimes we experience the excitement of trying to evacuate a building that's on fire.

Odds are pretty good that you've tossed dryer lint in the trash.

What waste! Oh, the agony!

But wait! All hope is not lost! Yes! You can recycle lint!

Which is why I've been celebrating this year's Earth Day by discussing lint. Mostly, how it can be recycled, instead of thrown away.

Even better, it's sustainable!

Other related posts:

• "Lemming Tracks: Whales, Business, and Hating Japan"
  (April 19, 2010)
• "Food, Agriculture, Technology, and City Folks"
  Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space (October 2, 2009)
• "Emotions, the Frontal Cortex, The War on Terror, Anarchists, and the Illuminati"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (December 23, 2008)
  Particularly
  • Emotion Trumping Reason: Not Limited to the War on Terror
• "Doomsday Seed Vault in Svalbard, or Don't Worry: There's Always Something to Worry About"
  (June 5, 2008)
• "Starvation, Poverty, and Perceptions"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (July 18, 2007)
  • Norman Borlaug and the green revolution

More:

• "Change, American Culture, Trilobites, Humanity's History, and the Big Picture "