Tai'an People Buy Cotton To Fickle &Nbsp; Good Cotton Turns To "Black Heart Cotton".

The surface color is white and slightly yellowish, and can be pulled long by hand. Cotton fiber After burning, it turns into powdered ashes and smells no smell. This is good cotton! How can we buy home? Black heart cotton " "What?"

Burning with peculiar smell, burning into a pimple.

On the morning of November 1st, reporters saw Ge Yanzu's house "cotton" bought in her house: 18 Jin of cotton in a big plastic bag. cotton The color is white and yellowish, and it can smell a little bit near cotton. If you remove the cotton inside, you can see that it is covered with small neps. The thickness of the fiber is different. Careful observation can also see many silvery white threads in the cotton.

When Ge Yan lit a bunch of cotton, the reporter immediately sniffed a burning plastic pungent smell, thick black smoke constantly emerging, and burning cotton can also see a lot of gray bubbles. Ge Yan explained to reporters that the bubbles were due to chemical fibers mixed with cotton, and the tar in chemical fibers would be bubbled when burned. The burnt cotton eventually turned into a black lump. The reporter picked up the black block and twisted it, so it was hard to open it. The ashes after crushing were small particles.

"I want to throw these cotton into the garbage bin with a strong heart, but I can't see my heart out of it." Ge Yan chagrin told reporters.

It turned out that Ge Yan wanted to make a quilt for his son who was in the first year of high school before it was cold. At noon on October 29th, after lunch, she heard a hawker selling cotton outside. "I intended to buy it at ramie Ma Station, but in order to save trouble, I bought the peddler. I saw the sample at that time, it was quite normal. The color of cotton is slightly yellowish in white. It has long cotton fibers. It has good elasticity and no peculiar smell. The hawker also burned a little on the spot to let me identify. Looking at the full combustion of cotton and finally becoming powdered ashes, I judged it was good cotton. The price is relatively cheap, 15 yuan / Jin, I bought 18 catties in one breath. Ge Yan recalled the scene at that time.

However, when she began to make quilts, she made a fool of her cotton. Untie the bag, it smells a pungent smell. Scattered neps are mixed in cotton, and a bunch of cotton is exposed in the sunlight. It can see that there are many shiny threads in it.

After working in the cotton mill for more than 20 years, she knows how to distinguish true and false cotton. "Fooled." Ge Yan said.

Experts take a look: This is black heart cotton.

On the afternoon of 1, the reporter sent the cotton bought by GE Yan to the Tai'an textile fiber inspection institute.

The staff responsible for cotton inspection told reporters that the cotton bought by GE Yan is a reprocessed fiber, commonly known as "black heart cotton". Reprocessed fibers are usually made of raw materials that are more complex. They are made from some leftovers or waste clothes from factories. They are mainly used for covering vegetable plastic shed or keeping warm for livestock. After reprocessing, the fiber is usually clearly identified and specified for its purpose. But some black hearted traders bought the reprocessed fiber and tore it off and sold it to the public as cotton.

How to identify pure cotton and "black heart cotton"? The staff of Tai'an textile fiber inspection office said that the color of reprocessed fiber is a kind of cold white, which appears to be very stiff and stiff. There are many broken small threads between the fibers. When hand drawing, the fiber size of cotton bundles varies with each other. Under the sun, there are many bright silk in the cotton bundles, and there will be a lot of dust in the pat. Pure white cotton is naturally soft, milky white, with a waxy coat on the surface and natural luster. After hand pulling, the length of cotton fiber is relatively uniform, and the elasticity is larger.

In addition, the smell of real cotton burning is like the smell of burning paper, emitting little smoke and burning gray ash. Reprocessing fibers emit strong black smoke when burning. The smell is very pungent. After combustion, black hard lumps are left, which are not easy to open with hands, and the ashes are granular.

The price of cotton is 4 times the price per kilogram of cotton.

Ge Yan said, to sell her "black heart cotton" traders said that Tai'an Daiyue District of the Ma Wan people, riding a red motorcycle. "That man gave me a chest to ensure that it was pure cotton, plus the sample of real cotton, and I believed it. It cost 300 yuan to buy a pile of" black heart cotton ". Ge Yan said regretfully.

Subsequently, the reporter interviewed found that at present, there is no more formal large-scale cotton market in Taiji City, usually selling some peddlers or peddlers selling streets and streets. Mr. Mao, a staff member of the cotton monopoly Department of Dongyue street, said that the price of cotton is relatively high this year, which is 18 yuan per catty.

Tai'an textile fiber inspection office staff introduction, at present, the price of reprocessed fiber is about 5 yuan / kg, while the pure cotton price is generally around 20 yuan / Jin. There are people who want to buy cheap hawkers or save money to buy cotton from small traders. "Black heart cotton" is complex in raw materials, contains more bacteria and dust. The state has strictly prohibited the use of reprocessed fibers as filler for fiber products. Long-term use of this kind of cotton is very harmful to human body.