Old Clothes Recycling "Gray Industry" Look Forward To Sunshine And Regularization

< p > If our country's a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_q.asp" > waste < /a > textiles are all recycled, the chemical fibers and natural fibers that can be provided in the year will be equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil saved, which is more than half of the annual oil output of Daqing oilfield.

Recently, the above measurement data released by China Textile Industry Federation is quite attracting attention.

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< p > "if all the waste textiles in China are recycled, the chemical fiber and natural fiber that can be provided in the year will be equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil saved, which is more than half of the annual oil output of Daqing oilfield."

Recently, the above measurement data released by China Textile Industry Federation is quite attracting attention.

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< p > however, there are various signs that behind the huge waste of waste clothing is the embarrassing situation that China's textile industry has been plagued by the shortage of raw materials in recent years.

It is understood that as a big country of fiber consumption, China's annual production and consumption links produce nearly 20 million tons of waste textiles, and the utilization rate is about 10%, while the import of textile raw materials is as high as 65%.

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At present, under the background of vigorously promoting the development of circular economy and building a resource conserving society in China, how to make the recycling channels of waste textiles "sunshine" and establish a complete processing and sales industry chain to make the best use of them has become a difficult problem to be solved urgently. P

A few days ago, reporters visited Shandong for the current situation of the local clothing recycling and processing industry.

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< p > recently, Jiyang Tiancheng renewable resources recycling company.

More than a dozen women workers were sorting out the old clothes that were pported from all over the place in a spacious room. The clothes with different fabrics and colors were packed into different plastic boxes for decomposition.

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< p > "through artificial screening first, determine the use of different fabrics and colors of old clothes.

For example, a better color can be exported to foreign countries as a garment, and a poor color can be extracted through fiber decomposing machine (commonly known as the "flower machine"), extraction of acrylic, polyester, spandex and other materials in the textile fibers, and ultimately can be sold to textile factories and chemical plants, respectively, used to make public road felt, greenhouse quilts and even extremely high oil additives.

Gao Shiming, manager of Jiyang Tiancheng renewable resources recycling company, told reporters.

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< p > during the interview, the reporter happened to have a worker driving a batch of waste clothes to the company.

Gao Shiming said that on average, the company could receive about 10 tons of waste textiles on a daily basis, usually at a price of 600 yuan per ton, which was charged to the recycling vendors.

In his words, the vendors around had saved enough 5 tons of old clothes. He would send someone to take the money with him immediately after a call.

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< p > even so, because the fixed recycling channels are limited, and the community has not equipped with specialized waste clothes recycling bins, the company has been in a state of "not enough to eat", and it is urgent to expand the scope of recycling.

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< p > on the other hand, it is "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_q.asp "less than /a > recycling company, but it is one of the countless families with old clothes to deal with.

It is understood that China's annual recovery of fiber less than 10% of raw materials, only in Shanghai and Guangzhou have some old clothes recycling attempt, waste textiles have become the wrong location of resources are wasted.

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< p > data calculation. If the average life expectancy of a garment is 3 to 4 years, our country will abandon 3 to 5 pieces of old clothes on average on the basis of 5 to 10 new pieces of clothing each year. By the end of 12th Five-Year, the total volume of waste textiles will reach 1 billion tons, of which 70 million tons of chemical fiber and 30 million tons of natural fibers.

If it can not be reused, it is not only a threat to the environment, but also a huge waste of invisibility.

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< p > "if all the waste textiles are recycled, the chemical fiber and natural fiber provided annually will be equivalent to saving nearly 1/3 of the cotton planting area."

On the 27 day, Tang Yanju, director of the Specialized Committee recycling waste recycling association of China, told reporters that a ton of old clothes could be converted into one ton of colored cotton yarn or directly generated nearly one ton of non-woven fabrics after being recycled.

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< p > according to the existing technology level, the average power consumption of spinning one ton of cotton yarn is about 2200 kwh, which does not include the energy, chemical raw materials and sewage treatment investment in dozens of production processes such as degreasing, dyeing, sizing, rinsing, drying and so on.

If the industry chain upstream cotton planting links involved in pesticides, irrigation and so on, will undoubtedly be a huge expense.

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< p > however, in the face of huge economic and environmental benefits, the textile enterprises in Shandong are not buying the recycled clothing.

Han Kexiu, vice chairman of Shandong textile society, confirmed to reporters that there is no textile enterprise in Shandong province that uses recycled textiles to produce recycled fabrics. There is no specific statistics on the annual waste of old clothes.

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< p > "on the one hand, the types of old clothes vary widely. Under the existing immature technology level, it is not always possible to achieve the purpose of recycling. On the other hand, because recycling channels are single, the cost of recycling is also a bottleneck impeding the reuse of waste clothing."

Qu Yanguo, manager of Ji'nan Lu Lian Textile Co., Ltd. admitted that even if the waste clothing contained extractable textile fibers, but in the current domestic recycling of waste clothes without specific criteria, because of its sensitive area of human health, textile enterprises generally will not be easy to get involved in clothing recycling business.

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Fang Xiaodong, founder of China's old clothes net, said that domestic enterprises are more likely to export their old clothes to foreign countries, instead of letting old clothes flow into the P chain.

Because clothing is directly exported for higher profits than recycled clothing.

From the number of old clothes traded on its website, more than 90% of the old clothes are recycled into the second-hand market in Africa, Southeast Asia and other places. The old clothes market in these areas is huge, and more than 80% of the people in some countries are wearing old clothes from China.

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"P" is not only a textile enterprise not to buy, in the interview process, the few old clothing recycling companies in the province also speak frankly that they do not want to be interviewed.

In their view, the old clothes recycling industry can not be carried out in a big way due to lack of state specific policy support, and can only be pferred underground under the "underground", which is a truly "gray industry".

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< p > Gao Shiming reluctantly indicated that there was no support policy. Because the industry and Commerce Department did not expressly stipulate the old clothes recycling industry, the company has not been able to handle relevant business licenses.

In view of the unlicensed recycling, the company had to accept the fines imposed by the local law enforcement agencies.

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< p > according to the latest management method of renewable resources recovery, old clothes are not included in the "renewable resources" except scrap metals, plastics and raw materials for papermaking, and their turnover pactions belong to the vacuum zone of management.

However, due to the health of human body, the departments concerned, such as industry and commerce, have relatively strict supervision and punishment on the circulation of old clothes, which has also brought a grey layer to the old clothes recycling industry.

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< p > Fang Xiaodong said that according to the law, "foreign garbage", including waste clothing, was explicitly prohibited from importation, but the recycling of second-hand clothing in China did not prohibit the specific provisions of the paction.

In developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States, the quality of good old clothes is a priority in the second-hand market.

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< p > waste clothing has demand, market and industrial chain, but there is no relevant regulations and perfect management, which makes the road of rebirth of domestic old clothes become more difficult.

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< p > Tang Yanju said that in general, China's research on the recycling and reuse of waste textiles is lagging behind. On the one hand, the processing technology level of enterprises is limited, the utilization rate of waste textiles after recycling and reprocessing is low, people's recognition rate for recycled clothing is not high, and on the other hand, there is a lack of relevant management regulations for recycling in China.

Only by making the old clothes recycling industry sunny and standardized can we promote the gray industry to establish a complete industrial chain, and really let the waste textiles play the role of circular economy.

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< p > Wang Tiankai, President of the China Textile Industry Federation, suggested that first, we should speed up the establishment of a recycling system and related standard system covering the whole society, and further improve the channels for recycling the waste textiles; secondly, we should break through the key technology of fiber recycling and strengthen the equipment matching, so as to really play an important role in easing the contradiction between raw materials shortage; in addition, we should encourage textile enterprises to carry out recycling work, gradually expand the proportion of waste materials in textile reproduction, strengthen the R & D of recovery and refine technology, and increase the added value of recycling.

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