Is Energy Saving And Low Carbon Consumption Appropriate?

Five years ago, the "textile industry" 11th Five-Year "development plan" solemnly promised the industry's goal of reducing consumption and environmental protection targets. Now, the industry is making a final and active effort to perfect the "ending".

In fact, the textile and garment industry has always regarded energy conservation and emission reduction as an important task and dare not slack off.

In 2008, the China textile industry association devoted itself to some cotton spinning and chemical fibers.

In 2009, the contents of "energy saving and emission reduction" appeared in the social responsibility report issued by ten domestic textile enterprises, such as copper cattle, red beans, Ruyi and good bird.

In July of this year, the China Textile Association launched the "implementation of responsibility for you and me" in China.

What is the current situation of the energy saving and emission reduction in the textile and garment industry? What are the difficulties encountered in the process of promoting the work? Is there any experience that enterprises can learn from? On these related issues, our reporter interviewed Ren Yanyan, the deputy head of the social responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Association, the chief researcher of the China Society of textile industry association, Liang Xiaohui, the researcher Hu Kehua, and several textile and clothing entrepreneurs.

Present situation

Effectiveness and pressure coexist

In the first four years of 11th Five-Year, the added value (comparable price) energy consumption of Enterprises above the scale of textile industry decreased by 39.27%, and the sewage discharge volume of unit value added (comparable price) dropped by 22%. The recycling of heat, medium water and fiber has begun to take shape.

There are media reports that in some of the more developed countries in Europe and America, clothing has appeared "

Extending the perspective to the whole industry level, Hu Kehua, a researcher at the China Association of textile industry's social responsibility office, said that in May 2009, the relevant agreements of the European Commission amended the promulgation standard of textile and mattress environmental labels, requiring all product categories to meet certain ecological standards, such as the impact of climate change, energy and resource consumption, and so on, in order to get environmental labels (also known as "flower labels").

In the United States, at the end of June 2009, the US government passed the bill of "border adjustment tax" for import products. It first took the lead to clear the so-called "carbon tariffs" on imports of high carbon emissions products from 2020.

In a deeper sense, it is a developed country that relies on its comprehensive environmental advantages to upgrade its environmental standards in a disguised way to impede its entry into the domestic market to protect its manufacturing industry. This new trade measure once again sounded the alarm for China's manufacturing industries to save energy and reduce emissions.

Hu Kehua said that although China's manufacturing level can fully meet the requirements of customers, but how to achieve "green" textile and garment products exports, industry associations are constantly exploring the promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction work, in order to deal with potential trade barriers that may arise in the future.

As we all know, the textile and garment industry is the traditional pillar industry and livelihood industry of our national economy. It is also one of the few obvious competitive industries in China. It plays an important role in absorbing social employment, earning foreign exchange and increasing farmers' income.

In July this year, 2010 China Textile and garment enterprises social responsibility report joint press conference, Sun Ruizhe, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, talked about social responsibility, said that social responsibility is becoming the "basic parameter" of the industry development trajectory and the "main variable" of enterprise management.

In line with the "parameters" and "variables", the new "parameters" such as "energy consumption and sewage discharge" have been added to the traditional indicators such as "output value, sales volume, sales revenue and export volume", and environmental indicators are included in the reference range.

Recently, the reporter learned from the China Textile Industry Association that, in the first four years of 11th Five-Year, the added value of the enterprises above the scale of textile industry (at comparable prices) dropped by 39.27%, and the clean production technology and equipment as well as the reclaimed water reuse technology were vigorously promoted. The sewage discharge volume of the unit added value (comparable price) dropped by 22%, and the recycling of heat, medium water and fiber had begun to take shape.

It is easy to see that the proportion of energy consumption in industrial energy consumption, energy consumption per unit of added value, sewage discharge per unit of added value and so on in the textile industry have decreased significantly.

The industry has made great progress in energy conservation and emission reduction.

However, it should not be overlooked that the textile industry is also a resource dependent industry.

From the latest research report provided by our textile economic research center to our reporter, we can see that at present, the total energy consumption of China's textile industry accounts for 4.3% of the total industrial energy consumption of the whole country, and the water consumption of Enterprises above Designated Size accounts for 8.51% of the total industrial enterprises in the country. The amount of waste water discharge accounts for 10% of the total industrial wastewater discharge in the country, of which 80% is the printing and dyeing wastewater, with an average recycling rate of only about 10%.

Generally speaking, most textile enterprises have insufficient input in energy conservation and emission reduction, and the adoption rate of advanced technology and equipment is relatively low.

It can be seen that the overall work of energy conservation and emission reduction in the textile and garment industry can not be relaxed.

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Case enterprise

Jiangsu Dan Mao Textile Co., Ltd.

For many years, Jiangsu Dan Mao Textile Co., Ltd. has implemented and implemented a series of environmental protection management systems, strictly implemented the requirements of ISO 14001 environmental management system, made the sewage treatment facilities operate normally, ensured the discharge of standards, implemented garbage sorting collection and classification treatment, actively planted trees and planted green, and expanded the coverage rate of green plants, reaching 36.5% in 2009.

According to Xu Rongfang, general manager of the company, last year, the company invested more than 175 yuan in environmental protection.

It is understood that "danmao" invested two yuan in 1998 and 2005 for a total of 4 million 200 thousand yuan, and introduced advanced pollution control equipment and technology, becoming the first Danyang printing and dyeing enterprise to achieve the "two liters" emission standard.

In 2007, the company invested 3 million 170 thousand yuan to build a set of daily processing 1000 tons of reclaimed water recycling system, becoming the first water reuse enterprise in Jiangsu province. At the same time, the company is the only environment-friendly enterprise in Jiangsu province.

Due to the realization of the reuse of printing and dyeing wastewater, the company has reduced the amount of printing and dyeing wastewater to 300 thousand tons annually.

Xu Rongfang said that sewage treatment is one of the means of fulfilling social responsibility, rather than the requirements of environmental protection departments, but the company's own requirements.

In 2009, "danmao" rebuilt the production workshop, making the reclaimed water utilization rate reach 30%.

Daly silk (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.

According to Yu Huiying, deputy general manager of Daly silk (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., the company set up an enterprise environmental management organization, which is responsible for the general manager of the public affairs company, and the environmental protection department is responsible for the specific implementation. All the workshops are equipped with part-time environmental protection personnel.

The company also set up 24 hours monitoring equipment at the main sewage outlet to know the sewage situation in time.

In 2008, "Daly" invested 670 thousand yuan to implement the "installation of electricity saving equipment in the total distribution room" project. The system has an annual average electricity consumption of about 510 thousand kwh, saving electricity cost of 350 thousand yuan. According to the dyeing production in 2008, "Daly" has made the technical pformation of the barrel dyeing machine, its electricity saving rate reaches 10%~15%, and the electricity saving is 50 thousand kwh.

It is worth mentioning that in the "Dali" production workshop, there are thousands of 40W ordinary fluorescent lamps, and the brightness efficiency is low.

So in 2008, the company tried to install an energy-efficient fluorescent lamp with high efficiency. The actual power was only 20W, but the measured brightness was more than 25% of the ordinary 40W fluorescent lamp.

The company's workshop adopts a large intelligent energy-saving ventilation equipment, and some of the waste water generated during its operation can be recycled.

In order to save water resources, the company invested 300 thousand yuan to carry out a series of equipment installation and pformation, not only improving the water quality, but also cost more than 147 yuan.

bottleneck

Capital and technology are the biggest constraints.

Capital determines whether the enterprise has the ability to do some environmental protection projects, which includes cost considerations.

Many technologies need to be acquired in the process of work advancement.

At present, a considerable number of enterprises in the industry have the awareness of energy conservation and emission reduction. They also know that the sustainable development of enterprises is closely related to energy conservation and emission reduction, but in fact, not every enterprise has the ability to do such a job.

Liang Xiaohui, chief researcher of the China Textile Industry Association's social responsibility office, said that more than 90% of the textile and garment industries are small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, capital and technology are the most critical factors restricting the energy conservation and emission reduction of these enterprises.

He said: "capital determines whether the enterprise has the money and the ability to do some environmental protection projects, which includes cost considerations and so on.

In the process of work advancement, many technologies need to be acquired. "

As far as technology is concerned, Hu Kehua, a researcher with the office of social responsibility of the China Textile Industry Association, believes that the application of various environmental protection technologies, including energy saving and emission reduction, is not a difficult problem from a technical point of view. However, due to the reasons of intellectual property rights or commercial technology, some efficient environmental protection technologies will challenge the current cost control of enterprises. On the other hand, even the application of environmental protection technology of enterprises is also affected by the economic and environmental system requirements of enterprises.

Hu Kehua gave an example: if an enterprise in the production process, the use of raw water and sewage costs may be 1 yuan / ton, but if it takes the reclaimed water reuse, the sewage treatment reached the standard of industrial water and then re used in production, the cost may rise to 2 yuan / ton, which is very likely to allow enterprises to continue to use raw water instead of putting into use to achieve the reuse of water. This is an option that enterprises will make in areas where sewage charges are low. And for areas with high environmental protection requirements, if sewage charges are 4 yuan / ton, then the economic benefits of reclaimed water will be highlighted.

"Capital includes not only the cost of environmental protection technology application, but also the operation of environmental protection facilities, as well as its input and output.

If there is no mandatory provision in the state, some enterprises think that the input and output of environmental protection are not very cost-effective, which will lead to their hesitation in this regard.

Hu Kehua further explained.

Yan Yan, deputy director of the office of social responsibility of the China Textile Industry Association, also told reporters that technically speaking, large innovative technology and product development are always led by large conglomerates in the industry, and the operation of SMEs is very difficult.

Based on this, the China Textile Industry Association launched a "performance of responsibility for you and me" energy saving emission reduction performance evaluation activities, the time is from July 30, 2010 to July 30, 2011.

The key point of the activity is that all the schemes are suitable for the small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve obvious energy saving and emission reduction effect with smaller investment, and they are replicable.

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Another problem that can not be ignored is that, with the development of China's economy, environmental, resources, land and other restrictive factors will become more and more prominent.

And resources for textile and garment industry is also a serious and realistic problem.

Sun Ruizhe has said that by the year 2040, the total demand for textile fibers will exceed 1 billion tons in the world, and the total fiber consumption in the world will be less than 71 million tons in 2009.

According to Yan Yan, at present, many enterprises in the world are engaged in the research of reutilization of recycled garments, especially the recycling and reuse of polyester garments.

For example, a Japanese company has been able to recycle polyester garments and complete the process from recycled polyester fabric to ready-made garments, but the cost is high.

The same clothes, consumers willing to pay more for the environment to pay more? If not, the production of enterprises can not achieve a virtuous circle, there is no money for further development.

It seems that in this regard, although some of the international enterprises have gone ahead, they are limited to individual enterprises and need further confirmation on terminal feedback.

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Increase environmental protection considerations in industrial chain

The green environmental behavior of textile and garment industry should be permeated in the whole industrial chain, not just in traditional production links.

Under the guidance of green civilization consciousness, the European and American countries first put forward the design concept of "green clothing" to promote the green environmental protection of the textile and garment industry. Its contents can cover the aspects of clothing production and consumption behavior, that is, the green environmental behavior of the industry should permeate the whole industrial chain, not just the traditional production links.

However, China's textile and garment industry is the largest single industry chain with the largest number of employment. It involves many aspects, such as spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, batch production, brand marketing management, channel management, logistics distribution, retail terminal and so on.

In China's textile and garment industry, chemicals such as oxidants, catalysts, flame retardants and decontamination agents are used in the process of spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing. The dyes, formaldehyde and halide carriers and heavy metals will be left on the textiles in printing and dyeing process, and the resin containing formaldehyde will also be used in the later stage of garment making, which will cause pollution to clothing.

Specifically speaking, the pollution of textile and garment production is relatively serious.

In August this year, the Ministry of industry and information technology announced 18 industrial enterprises to eliminate backward production capacity list in 2010, involving 2087 enterprises, requiring the backward production capacity of these enterprises to be closed by the end of September this year.

The list is related to the textile and garment industry, the printing and dyeing industry and the chemical fiber industry.

Among them, there are 201 printing and dyeing enterprises and 25 chemical fiber enterprises.

Related to this is, the textile industry adjustment and revitalization plan also put forward a clear goal: in the printing and dyeing and chemical fiber industry, by 2011, the printing and dyeing capacity of 7 billion 500 million meters high energy consumption, high water consumption and low technology level should be eliminated, and the backward production capacity of 2 million 300 thousand tons of chemical fiber will be eliminated, and the backward production capacity of cotton spinning and wool spinning should be eliminated.

Hu Kehua said that the elimination of backward production capacity in the industry is actually a heavy task for chemical fiber and dyeing.

Especially for the high energy consuming chemical fiber industry, it belongs to the basic industry of textile industry. In the process of production, the energy consumption per unit GDP is higher. The task of energy saving and emission reduction is especially small on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

However, just like two sides of a coin, Liang Xiaohui and Hu Kehuadou think that this is a step for the industry to go for the iron fist to eliminate backward production capacity.

The upgrading and development of China's textile and garment industry must go through the winning and inferiority situation, and eliminating backward production capacity is an opportunity - the industry can take the initiative to carry out structural adjustment and upgrading in order to avoid elimination.

In the consumption link, it is not known whether consumers can form a concept of "one coat and more fit", increasing the utilization rate of each garment and truly achieving green consumption.

However, industry experts believe that in daily life, more and more people will choose to reduce the frequency of buying clothes, choose environmentally friendly fabrics, environmental protection styles and so on.

Statistics show that, under the premise of ensuring the needs of life, buying less than one piece of clothes per person per year can save about 2.5 kilograms of standard coal and 6.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions accordingly.

If 25 million people do this every year, they can save 62 thousand and 500 tons of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide by 160 thousand tons.

In addition, if we want to create a green industry chain, as a Sales Department of textile and clothing products, department stores are indispensable.

Fortunately, there are already a number of department stores at home and abroad have made an example in terms of energy conservation and emission reduction.

For example, the modern department store in Korea joined hands with the first domestic garment enterprises such as the first hair weaving and KOLON in 2008, and first launched the clothing marked with carbon labels in China.

The design of the carbon label is directly responsible for the modern department store. The shape of the label is a cool blue water droplet shape. There are small snowflakes on the water droplets and the letter "C" which represents carbon dioxide, and the kilogram of carbon emission reduction.

In the domestic department stores, Beijing contemporary shopping mall is worth noting in the work of energy conservation and emission reduction.

Jin Yuhua, President of the mall, told our reporter that in 2009, the contemporary shopping mall carried out a number of technical pformation of energy saving and consumption reduction. As a result, the electricity consumption in the whole year was reduced by 1 million 326 thousand degrees compared with that in 2008, and the consumption of natural gas was reduced by 35447 cubic meters, and the water saving rate reached 14.6%.

In fact, the energy conservation and environmental protection activities of the contemporary shopping mall did not start in the past one or two years.

As early as 2007, the mall has formulated the "five years (2008-2012) plan for energy conservation and environmental protection of the contemporary shopping mall".

In the past two years, the mall has invested a lot of money in energy saving and technical pformation, controlling the use of air conditioning lighting, replacing energy-saving lamps, upgrading escalator frequency, and scientifically controlling the room temperature.

At the same time, the mall introduced many low carbon products to many categories, including clothing, food, environmental protection kitchenware, energy-saving household appliances and so on.

These products are made of environment-friendly materials or have less carbon emissions during the production process or less energy consumption when used.