To provide a filter element of a dry air cleaner for an automobile, in which a filter body equipped with filter media capable of biodegradation and easy adjustment of filter capacity is simply formed and separation of metallic parts or synthetic resin products used for a formwork, an end plate and a perforated reinforced plate from the filter media is easily performed and the metallic parts or the synthetic resin products can be reutilized.

The filter element of the dry air cleaner for an automobile is equipped with a filter body and a formwork or an end plate. The filter body is formed of sandwiching filter media having at least a two-layer structure consisting of sheetlike biodegradable nonwoven fabric between nearly corrugated platelike perforated reinforced plates.