Lint cleaning suspends mostly coarse particles - it is difficult to gravimetrically collect sufficient PM2.5 mass.
The rapid release of a sizable lint dust cloud near the person performing cleaning resulted in 1-min PM10 exposures>1000 μg/m3.
All 1-min exposures dropped below the WHO 24-h ambient PM10 guideline (50 μg/m3) 6 min after cleaning.
There were no strong correlations between the mass of bulk lint cleaned and levels of PM10 exposures.