The Bite:
Your dryer's lint filter. Keeping it clear of lint conserves energy and cash, and actually reduces fire hazard, no Q-tip necessary.
What's the next best place to check for lint?
07.24.2008
Submitted by tmeronek on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 12:57am.
The Benefits:
- Efficiency: innie. Waste: outie. You can decrease your dryer's energy usage by up to 30% just by cleaning the lint filter (clogged ducts resulting from lint buildup reduce its efficiency).
- Saving up for that navel piercing. Cleaning out your lint filter could save you up to $40 per year in energy costs.
- Not setting your midriff-baring tube tops aflame. Stop dryer fires (usually a result of lint blocking the exhaust duct) before they start.
Personally Speaking:
Jen is so obsessed with dryer lint that she'll stop the drying cycle halfway through (especially on fluffy, lint-y towel loads) to clean the filter. We're not kidding.
Wanna Try:
- Take out lint tray. Remove lint. Reinsert lint tray into dryer.
- A few uses for dryer lint: compost; kindling for fires; nesting material for birds. Hit us with more in the blog.
Cocktail Fact
A University of Sydney study found that the most common color of belly button lint is blue (most clothes contain at least some blue fibers).
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters empty their lint filters after every load, in a year we'll save enough energy to run a dryer 670,000 times.
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