Weekly waste war: Turn Dryer Lint into waterproof fire starter

This is the first post in what I hope to be a weekly series based on combating (that's right, ass kicking!) waste in your daily life. Even the smallest and easiest things you can do to waste less can have the biggest impact, because everyone can do it, whether you're rich, poor, a moron or a rocket scientist. And it's much more important to look at what we can do and just do it instead of looking at what we can't change or thinking we can't make a difference.

After that incredibly motivating speech, you're probably ready to live 100% sustainable and never waste an ounce of anything in your life, but let's start out small, with dryer Lint. Probably the easiest and most common thing to reuse in your house. It probably has one of the smallest impacts on landfills and such, but it's not just about the waste. It's about turning something that you normally would have no use for into something useful. Whatever it is, this offsets energy and money being spent through what you've created or partially created from reusing something that you thought was useless.

Exxon Pipeline Breaks in Arkansas

This is just a short video of a HUGE amount of oil, spilled right into the backyards of people in Mayflower, Arkansas. It's bubbling through the streets of suburbia and cascading across Mrs. Field's garden flowers.

Can we stop using the word "spilled" when it comes to oil? Spilled implies Exxon was having a tea party and got a little sloppy with the china set and "spilled" some oil. Just a little bit. 189,000 gallons of oil just "spilled" across the backyards and streets of Mayflower, Arkansas. A spill. How about, "another s***ton of oil was carelessly allowed to rupture through a pipeline by another ass backwards corporate conglomerate and once again, they're going to get away with it?" Does that fit the description? I think so.