if lint is just fibers from my clothes being pulled out in the dryer, why are my clothes not completely dissolved after decades of being put through said dryer?
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Basically: clothes wear out before they can fall apart, but this wear is partly due to shedding lint.
Clothes made from natural fibers like wool and cotton, especially thinner weight items like t shirts, do wear thin after enough washes. As they get thinner they become easier to tear and we eventually throw them out long before they could actually dissolve, but if you kept at it long enough they would eventually just be rags, and if you kept washing those ece dually they’ll be shredded, and if you kept washes those eventually they’d fall apart into pieces and somewhere down the line actually dissolve. Synthetic fibers are longer and often stronger so they break less easily. If your clothes are not 100% cotton, they will last even longer.
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