Clothing Donation "Thankless" Recovery Day Embarrassed

< p > if all the waste textiles in China are recycled, the chemical fibers and natural fibers that can be supplied in the year will be equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil saved and half of the output of the Daqing oilfield.

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< p > is a huge waste, and the other is the shortage of resources.

"Xinhua viewpoint" reporter found that, < a > clothing donation < /a > day embarrassment, recycling and "no door", old clothes processing become a conservation minded society important examination questions.

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Less than P, "the new three years, the old three years, sewing time and three years" has been gone for ever.

Nowadays, almost every family is facing a closet.

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Zhao Jing, a P in Beijing, said that there was always a shortage of suitable clothes in a full wardrobe, and there was an impulse to constantly add new products.

Especially when it comes to seasonal discounts, they usually buy more sets.

However, the speed of buying can not keep up with the trend of fashion.

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< p > with the improvement of living standards, even if there are no big objects in the family, there are many clothes. Some people still have friends and family that can be sent, most of them are "giving away nothing".

Liu Lingling, who lives in a shanty town in Huimin District, Hohhot, says that the quality of his old clothes is not so good. It is not easy to give to others. Selling 35 cents is not enough.

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< p > according to the average life expectancy of an article of clothing from 3 to 4 years, if our country annually abandons 5 to 10 new clothes on the basis of annual average, 3 to 5 pieces of old clothes are abandoned. At the end of 12th Five-Year, the total amount of waste textiles produced in China is about 1 million tons, of which 70 million tons of synthetic fiber and 30 million tons of natural fibers are not recycled, which not only pollute the environment, but also is a huge invisible waste.

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< p > how to deal with old clothes, donation is the most commonly used channel.

In China, the regular social donation work, mainly donated by a and "old clothes" /a, began in 1996. There are more than 30 thousand social donation sites, and hundreds of millions of pieces of waste clothing have been collected annually, which has played a role in helping poverty alleviation, disaster relief and other work.

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< p >, however, the reporter interviewed dozens of relief agencies, most of them did not think much of this behavior. Such donations can not change the waste of old clothes, and may cause new waste.

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< p > < strong > clothing donation: "thankless effort" < /strong > /p >

< p > relative to the waste of clothes, people care more about the safety of clothes. 10 people always ask 2 people: will there be infectious diseases in these old clothes? < /p >

< p > "this is the most thankless job."

Yang Jingyu, the head of the Inner Mongolia mountain Volunteer Association, has been a volunteer for six or seven years. He started sending clothes to the countryside and the market. It has not been popular in the past two years.

In the past, he and some volunteers would also go to household surveys to see what kind of old clothes the townsman needed and provide them with targeted attention.

But this workload is too big to keep on going.

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Roach, the head of the Hohhot Angel Public Welfare Association, is also deeply impressed by the fact that there is no public organization in the region that has p equipment to clean and disinfect old clothes.

Some organizations organize employees to donate, mostly to complete a task of offering love, and do not consider the quality of donation at all.

This requires volunteers to pick and choose patiently, part of them will get home to carry out simple cleaning and disinfection treatment, and finally unified packing.

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< p > reporters saw at a love clothing aid station that the old clothes were stacked in the corners of the corridor and the car wash factory.

Stationmaster Liu Shuixia says, do not dare to let go now to collect old clothes, in which square on the square, can receive tens of thousands of pieces in minute.

"Collecting and storing is a problem. When it rains, it will be moldy. This is the third place to replace it."

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Compared with other love a and "rescue /a" content, clothing has already been ranked in the most backward need of helping the poor and the poor, said Hou Kai Li, a p Promotion Society for poverty alleviation in Hohhot.

Sending clothes to the countryside has been increasingly proven to be "outweigh the gains". The cost of sending clothes is far higher than the value of clothes. Many volunteers have to spend thousands of dollars a year.

It is necessary for relevant departments to support targeted donations to remote and impoverished areas with special clothing needs.

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< p > < strong > the use of old clothes is "tempting". Why is it difficult to recycle? < /strong > /p >

< p > is a huge waste, and the other is the shortage of resources.

According to Gao Yong, vice president of China Federation of textile industry, the total amount of fiber processing in the world reached 92 million 300 thousand tons in 2013, and China accounted for more than half of the total.

As a big country of fiber consumption, raw material tightening will restrict the development of textile industry.

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< p > one side is the huge prospect of utilization, and the other is the difficulty of recovery.

Expert analysis shows that old clothes have been turned into waste, and there are no technical problems. Their functions are constantly improving. They can be used as insulating layer, industrial cloth and curtain cloth, but also can replace traditional waterproof and reinforcing materials for waterproof base materials, and are also cheap raw materials of active carbon sources.

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< p > according to the China Federation of textile industry, if all the waste textiles in China are recycled, the annual chemical fiber and natural fiber will be equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil saved, and 80 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced, and nearly 1/3 of the cotton planting area will be saved.

However, our annual recycling of fiber is less than 10% of raw materials. Only in Shanghai and Guangzhou has some attempts to recycle old clothes.

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< p > < a href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp > > the Deputy Secretary General of the China Textile Industry Federation, sun Huaibin, said that the United States, which has seventy or eighty years of recycling history of waste products, has realized the value of 28 billion 900 million US dollars in exports and the employment of 460 thousand people every year after recycling the waste materials such as metal materials, plastics and waste textiles. China is the largest waste product in the United States.

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< p > "how much waste material is there in China? The figures are generally estimated."

Sun Huaibin said, we need to make scientific statistics on waste materials, and regard waste products as real resources.

At present, it is urgent to open up a policy hole, support the construction of recycling system, encourage textile enterprises to carry out recycling work, establish a second-hand trading market, improve sorting, strengthen scientific and technological development, and increase the added value of recycling.

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< p > although China started implementing renewable energy law as early as 2006, there were no corresponding supporting provisions for the recycling of old clothes.

Volunteer Gong Gong Dali said that in order to reduce waste of resources and develop circular economy, the meaning of old clothes recycling is very large, but in reality, it has not attracted enough attention.

No matter hygiene, quality inspection, industry and commerce or civil affairs department, there is no specific management policy for old clothes.

Now some simple second-hand clothing pactions are basically underground.

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Guo Yuqiang, deputy director of the Department of social welfare and philanthropy promotion of the Ministry of civil affairs, said that the use of old clothes is a major task. It needs to cooperate sincerely with industry associations, enterprises, organizations and technological R & D institutions. The old clothes recycling activities of individual brand clothing enterprises are only a starting point and a breakthrough point, and they need to be further developed in a more extensive direction. P

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