"Zero Abandonment Of Old Clothes - The Old Clothes Recycling Activities Of Chinese Brand Clothing Enterprises" Officially Started

< p > June 14, 2014, under the guidance of < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com//business/" > the Ministry of Civil Affairs < /a >, the China Textile Industry Federation and the China ecological civilization research and Promotion Association sponsored the "old clothes zero abandonment - the old clothes recycling activities of Chinese brand clothing enterprises" officially started.

Vice Minister of civil affairs Dou Yupei attended the launching ceremony and delivered a speech.

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< p > Dou Yupei pointed out that "zero abandonment of old clothes" is a significant and far-reaching social action. It is a concrete embodiment of implementing the request of the party in the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to support the positive role of charity in helping the poor, and it is a practical action to practise the socialist core value concept and an important content of thrift and moral saving.

At the same time, "zero abandonment of old clothes" is also an innovative action of multi-party cooperation and path opening.

The parties involved in the activities have made concerted efforts and extended their development, innovating the division of labor and cooperation between industry associations, garment manufacturers, consumers, charitable organizations, R & D institutions and comprehensive utilization enterprises, and striving to create a charity service platform for clothing donation, classification and classification, regeneration processing, charity distribution, and helping the needy people, so as to achieve the path of circular utilization and frugality, and realize the win-win development of the textile industry and the development of philanthropy and relief. This fully embodies the charitable concept of mutual help and sharing, and the spirit of the times of reform and innovation.

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< p > Dou Yupei stressed that it is necessary to carry out activities of "zero abandonment of old clothes", actively recycle and make comprehensive use of donated brand clothing, actively guide social forces to participate in social assistance, and work together to help the needy people to solve urgent needs. They will surely accumulate experience for a larger and larger scope of comprehensive utilization of donated clothing and waste, which will have important and far-reaching implications for reducing waste of resources and helping poor and hardship and developing philanthropy.

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< p > < a > href= > http://sjfzxm.com//business/ > > < /a > > "old clothes zero abandonment" activities have selected joint operation of enterprises with high brand reputation, large social influence and large sales scale. There are Bosideng, Yida group (cotton clothes workshop), Lu Tai textile (Wrigley), China earth Xue Lian Limited by Share Ltd (Xue Lian), Beijing Shun Mei clothing Limited by Share Ltd (Shun Mei), Yi Wen group (Yiwen, Notting Hill, Kevin Kelly), Beijing Jia men Clothing Co., Ltd. (water boy), Kade crystal products, community youth exchange and so on, 35 brands of stores and shopping malls and agencies are involved in the recycling activities.

The recycling activities will last for one month, and the waste clothes donated by the public during this period will be sorted by charitable organizations such as the China Youth Development Foundation, orchid grass Arts Fund and so on. The clothes that meet the standards of safety and hygiene will be used in charity projects such as the "Western warmer plan". Clothes that do not meet the relevant standards will be used as raw materials for the research of regenerative processing technology.

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< p > < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com//business/" > < /a >, China produces about 20 million tons of waste textiles every year in the production and consumption links, and the utilization rate is less than 14%. A large number of waste textiles, especially waste clothing, are stored in the wardrobe of various households, and many factories and enterprises are stored in warehouses, thus forming an objective waste of resources.

It is estimated that if all the waste textiles in China are recycled, it can provide 12 million tons of chemical fiber and 6 million tons of natural fiber in the year, equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil, more than half of the output of Daqing oil field, 80 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, 20 million acres of arable land, 30% of the cotton cultivation area in the whole year, and it can also be applied to building materials, water conservancy highways, medical and health, automobile interior decoration, furniture manufacturing, and many other industries.

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At the same time, China is still in the initial stage of socialism. There are about 70000000 people living in urban and rural areas, about 80000000 people with disabilities, about 5000000 people with five guarantees, a large number of children in distress, and an average of 200 million people who suffer from disasters each year. P

For many difficult people, good quality, health and safety of waste clothing can help them solve many practical problems.

It can be said that the recycling of waste textiles has important practical significance for helping the poor, helping the poor, developing philanthropy, reducing waste of resources and developing circular economy.

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At the launching ceremony, the "brand old clothes zero abandonment" collection and donation bags and recycling boxes were distributed to the brand representatives who participated in the activities. The leaders, guests and brand representatives attending the ceremony also donated old clothes that were carried by themselves. P

Wang Tiankai, President of China Textile Industry Federation, Zhu Guangyao, executive vice president of China ecological civilization research and Promotion Association, and representatives of relevant units attended the launching ceremony. < /p >