Cotton gins typically generate supplemental returns from selling lint cleaner waste, commonly called “motes”. These motes are usually cleaned with a cylinder cleaner at the gin before selling to a merchant or processor. This study evaluated the performance of an experimental machine that used both seed cotton cleaning and lint cleaning principles to clean motes. The new machine consisted of a modified six-cylinder cleaner, two lint cleaning saws, and a fiber retaining saw. The performance of the experimental machine preceded by a conventional cylinder cleaner was compared to the performances of both a conventional cylinder cleaner, simulating gin-level cleaning, and a sequence of three seed cotton-type cleaners followed by two saw-type lint cleaners, representative of cleaning at a mote processing plant. Two levels of initial trash content and two levels of moisture were incorporated into the test. The treatment with the experimental machine achieved about 50% turnout, approximately 21 percentage points lower than the conventional cylinder cleaner and 19 percentage points higher than sequence of three seed cotton-type cleaners and two saw-type lint cleaners. However, the quality of the cleaned motes was inversely related to the turnout. Considering both turnout and the quality of the cleaned product, the experimental treatment returned $2.26 per bale of ginned lint, surpassing the value of cleaning with the conventional cylinder cleaner by $0.61. The three seed cotton-type cleaners in conjunction with the two saw-type lint cleaners experienced the highest return at $2.81 per bale of ginned lint.