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A quick calculation indicates to me that the lint that we find in pockets, navels and clothes dryer filters amounts to approximately 10,000 tonne of clothing fibres discarded per day, around the world.
This is enough to make roughly 5,000,000 high quality, recycled fibre suits per day.
These
suits would be cut from cloth made to the highest specification, in UB Lookin' At The Future spinning and weaving mills, and tailored for sale in our upscale fashion boutiques, in London, New York, Tokyo, Milan, Paris and Shanghai.
Priced at the premium end of the market, no environmentally responsible CEO or charity patron can afford to be seen without one of these distinctively blue-grey, lightweight numbers.
Bring out your lint!
lint exhibitions~~~
http://www.studioca...int/exhibitions.htm
[xandram, May 24 2006]
Why blue?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_lint
"Navel lint's characteristic blue tint is due to the existence of blue fibers in most clothing." [Shz, May 24 2006]
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those funny looking lumps - are they forgotten chewies, kleenex and five pound notes? |
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Hippo Tailoring makes an altogether superior product. We make suits from the pocket and navel lint from people who wear UB's Pocket Lint suits. Even softer! Even more blue-grey! |
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[+] Nice one. It would also aid the prevention all that fluff accumulating on my carpet. |
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//A quick calculation indicates to me that [...] around the world.// |
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A quick calculation based on your quick calculation indicates to me that each person's clothing decompose by a rate of 1.67 grams/day. |
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now if you'll take that quickly obtained information and process it your way, you'll probably realise that the daily amount of lint and fiber available is actually 20,000 tons/day, allowing a ten times larger production, so that the ladies can take advantage from the new upscale trend as well. |
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Hell!, I'm 'collecting' more and more!. Can I open a Franchise? |
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were any lints hurt in this process? |
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Wouldn't these dissolve in the wash? |
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I have a friend who once threw up in each
of his two coat pockets whilst travelling in
the back of a car ... it's a long story. These
bits would be freeze dried for nibbling on
in an emergency - good for making into
hats. + |
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well, po, UB's weaving mills are to lint what labour camps were to jews. |
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i know that from the few survivors which im hiding in my secret pocket right now.
I beg you don't tell UB about this |
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You, um, want to go over how you derived those statistics...? |
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As for that "stuff" that washes off of air purifiers: You want a dye for that? |
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New crayon color to follow: Navel-Lint Blue. Why is it always blue, even though I wear white?.. or is that just me? |
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[shz] Yeah! How come it's always blue? Though I do get red lint from red towels... |
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One of the shortcomings (ha) of recycling is that, over time, the fibers of the material become progressively shorter until they are too short to be useful. Thus, the fundamental problem with this idea seems to be that the fibers in lint would be too short to be woven. |
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The presence of hairs, both cranial and pubic, will take care of the fibre length problem, [nihilo]. |
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[DC], I worked on a nominal figure of 4 grams per day, across 2.5 billion persons who live in areas where collection of lint might be possible. |
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Dryer collections will account for most of the lint production, especially from laundromats and commercial laundries. |
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I also reckoned upon approximately 2kg of material per suit. |
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For the Metric-impaired, there are 28.4grams in 1oz avoirdupois. Therefore, it works out to 1/7oz of lint per person per day. |
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At production of 5 million suits per day, and approximately 240 production days in a year, everyone will have one within just over 2 years, unless the cognoscenti rush out and each buy a half dozen. |
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And if no dyes are used, we will soon be uniformed a la Mao. |
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For the sharkskin look (a la the '80s) spray the whole thing with shellac. A good clean look and waterproof as well. |
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Snowproofing would work, too, I suppose. |
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