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Does dryers actually damage clothes?
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Have you ever cleaned out a lint trap? All that lint used to be part of the clothes.
Serious question. I know this may sound silly, but why does the lint change colour then? Like, if I dry a load of white clothing then why does the lint still come out black?
My lint is always the color of the clothes in the dryer.
If yours isn't, I'd start by deep cleaning your machine. Take the back panel off and vacuum any lint throughout the whole thing.
If you think it's burning it to make it black. You've got a potential fire in your future you need to address.
Well until very recently I had a shared laundry set-up, where I was sharing two laundry machines with everyone in my apartment building. That might explain why it’s all black. I don’t think its actually burning theres probably just a lot of gunk in the system