{
  "slug": "lint-rollers",
  "name": "Lint rollers and brushes",
  "question": "Which lint rollers and lint brushes have no plastic in the handle, the pickup surface or the way it's held together?",
  "status": "nothing-qualifies",
  "updated": "2026-11-11",
  "editor": "cody-wauters",
  "page": "https://amaterio.com/plastic-free/lint-rollers/",
  "summary": "Nothing in lint rollers has earned a spot yet. We checked one, Redecker's bronze wire clothes brush, and we can't tell if it's plastic-free.\n\nIt's an oiled pearwood handle, brass wire and a row of horsehair, with nothing in it that we'd call plastic. What's missing is how the bristles are set, whether there's a hanging loop and what it's made of, and what the oil is. Both stockists we checked show it sold out.",
  "whyPlastic": "A standard lint roller is a plastic handle wrapped in a sticky sheet, and the sheets are plastic film with synthetic adhesive. The reusable ones are no better: the washable \"sticky\" roller is a silicone or polymer drum in a plastic case. The plastic-free versions skip the adhesive altogether. A beech handle with a brass comb, a natural rubber brush, or a horsehair clothes brush all pick up lint without a sheet. What to watch is the small stuff: a lacquered handle, glued bristles, and rubber that's blended with synthetic.",
  "whatToCheck": [
    "Pickup surface: brass, steel, natural rubber or animal bristle, or silicone and synthetic adhesive?",
    "Handle: untreated or oiled wood, or a lacquered or plastic-coated one?",
    "Fixing: how the comb, bristles or rubber are held (copper wire, pitch, glue, staples)?",
    "Rubber: natural rubber, or a blend with synthetic?",
    "Packaging: card and paper, or a plastic sleeve?"
  ],
  "faq": [],
  "whyNone": "",
  "products": [
    {
      "slug": "redecker-bronze-wire-clothes-brush",
      "name": "Bronze Wire Clothes Brush",
      "brand": "Redecker",
      "category": "lint-rollers",
      "tier": "cannot-tell",
      "rank": null,
      "page": "https://amaterio.com/plastic-free/lint-rollers/redecker-bronze-wire-clothes-brush/",
      "url": null,
      "affiliateUrl": null,
      "price": {
        "amount": 55,
        "currency": "USD",
        "seenAt": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "madeIn": "",
      "inTheBox": "",
      "unknowns": [
        "bristle fixing in the head",
        "hanging loop or cord",
        "hanging loop",
        "bristle fixing",
        "oil on the handle"
      ],
      "verdict": {
        "summary": "An oiled pearwood handle, brass wire and a row of horsehair, which is as close to plastic-free as a clothes brush gets. We still can't call it. We don't know how the bristles are held in the wood, whether there's a hanging loop and what it's made of, or what the oil is. The two stockists we checked, one in Toronto and one in Australia, both showed it sold out.",
        "date": "2026-11-11",
        "passes": [
          "pass-1",
          "pass-2"
        ],
        "agree": false,
        "caveat": "Unknown: how the bristles are fixed, the hanging loop (leather would need an unfinished or oil-finished surface), and the oil on the handle. Packaging not checked. Sold out where we looked."
      },
      "components": [
        {
          "name": "handle",
          "role": "major",
          "material": "oiled pearwood",
          "class": "not-plastic",
          "ruling": "R3",
          "source": {
            "url": "https://prettycleanshop.com/products/bronze-wire-clothes-brush-by-redecker",
            "quote": "Oiled pearwood handle",
            "translation": "",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
            "archive": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "bristles (wire)",
          "role": "major",
          "material": "brass (bronze) wire",
          "class": "not-plastic",
          "ruling": null,
          "source": {
            "url": "https://prettycleanshop.com/products/bronze-wire-clothes-brush-by-redecker",
            "quote": "MATERIAL\n Oiled pearwood, brass wire, horsehair.",
            "translation": "",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
            "archive": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "bristles (outer row)",
          "role": "major",
          "material": "horsehair",
          "class": "not-plastic",
          "ruling": null,
          "source": {
            "url": "https://prettycleanshop.com/products/bronze-wire-clothes-brush-by-redecker",
            "quote": "Bronze wire with outer row of horsehair",
            "translation": "",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11",
            "archive": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "bristle fixing in the head",
          "role": "minor",
          "material": "",
          "class": "unknown",
          "ruling": null,
          "source": null
        },
        {
          "name": "hanging loop or cord",
          "role": "minor",
          "material": "",
          "class": "unknown",
          "ruling": null,
          "source": null
        },
        {
          "name": "hanging loop",
          "role": "minor",
          "material": "not stated",
          "class": "unknown",
          "ruling": null,
          "source": null
        },
        {
          "name": "bristle fixing",
          "role": "minor",
          "material": "not stated",
          "class": "unknown",
          "ruling": "R8",
          "source": null
        },
        {
          "name": "oil on the handle",
          "role": "minor",
          "material": "not stated",
          "class": "unknown",
          "ruling": "R3",
          "source": null
        }
      ],
      "packaging": {
        "verified": false,
        "materials": [],
        "class": "unknown",
        "source": null
      },
      "commentary": [],
      "images": [
        {
          "src": "/products/redecker-bronze-wire-clothes-brush/1.webp",
          "alt": "Redecker Bronze Wire Clothes Brush",
          "credit": "Photo: Redecker (prettycleanshop.com)",
          "source": "http://www.prettycleanshop.com/cdn/shop/files/Bronze-Wire-Clothes-Brush-by-Redecker.jpg?v=1780368656"
        },
        {
          "src": "/products/redecker-bronze-wire-clothes-brush/2.webp",
          "alt": "Redecker Bronze Wire Clothes Brush",
          "credit": "Photo: Redecker (prettycleanshop.com)",
          "source": "https://www.prettycleanshop.com/cdn/shop/files/Bronze-Wire-Clothes-Brush-by-Redecker.jpg?v=1780368656"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}