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Where Have All The Old Clothes Thrown Away By Americans?

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Behind the chaos of P is a serious waste of American textiles.

Vex is just one of the charity and profit organizations that fight for the big fat of the old clothes.

Of all the rubbish in New York, clothing and textiles accounted for more than 6%, about 193 thousand tons a year.

These figures reflect the treatment of waste clothing in the United States: only 15% of the old clothes in the United States have been reused or reused through donation channels, while the remaining 10 million 500 thousand tons are buried in landfills, making textiles the lowest recycling rate in recyclable materials.

What is the meaning of textile recycling? Although more than half of the donated clothing is worn on the human body, a large proportion of the remaining P has gone through the traditional recycling practice, which is to crush and remake it into insulator or carpet lining or rag.

finding the right way to deal with waste clothes is not easy. If those donation boxes are not placed on the sidewalk, few people will know where to throw old clothes.

The main reason is that Americans still habitually believe that old clothes should be donated to charities, which is why people are angry when they learn that these donation boxes belong to profit-making company.

donation clothing was mostly recovered .

textile recycling industry is trying to clarify people's confusion.

"What we need to do now is to change the concept of people." you are not just donating, but reusing and recycling. "Jackie Kim, executive director of the second-hand materials and textile recycling association (trade group), said," this is a communication problem. Let people know that if they really want to donate their old clothes to charities, no problem, but if not, we can provide a convenient and quick way of dealing with them. "

from glass bottles to cans to newspapers, the recycling of most articles is done by profit-making company.

This is a huge business opportunity for a country that produces a lot of rubbish.

Take plastics as an example. In 2010, the United States exported plastic waste worth more than 940 million dollars.

In addition, since the recession, more people tend to buy second-hand clothing because of their tight money, so the value of old clothes is also rising.

in fact, most of the < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > old clothes < /a > finally came into the hands of the textiles recycling organization.

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of course, old clothes and bottle newspapers are most likely to become second-hand clothes.

Old clothes do not need to be broken like plastic and glass bottles and made into new products.

The remaining half - those torn and torn clothes - can also be recycled.

in fact, the charity began to carry out textile recycling in the United States in the early twentieth Century. The United States' non-profit charity charity charity organization set up a donation box specially for recycling old clothes in the early 40s.

However, these recycling systems are the products of the former Consumerism Era, when we did not have the problem of landfills and no garbage crisis.

Mathias Wallander, chief executive of textile recycling company "reuse" company, pointed out that Americans now buy clothes 5 times as many as in 1980.

Between 1999 and 2009, the number of textile waste increased by 40%.

Especially after the appearance of cheap disposable clothing, charities discovered that they had become garbage dumps.

Jin says there are many misconceptions about the whereabouts of donated clothing. "People think they donate clothes to charity organizations such as salvation army or goodwill, so clothes will be sold in stores for two times.

But this is not the case because they do not have so many venues to sell clothes at all.

In fact, she said, a garment donated only 15% to 20% of the opportunity to wear again, because the charity received too many clothes, they have no energy to sell it at all.

Less than 20% of the old clothes received by the "Salvation Army" and "good intentions" were sold in retail stores, only 20% of the old clothes received by the Salvation Army and good intentions.

After that, they will contact the textile recycling company such as vex and take the rest of the clothes in Jin for recycling.

only convenience is the hard truth.

if most of the old clothes will eventually flow into the hands of textile recyclers, then how should we make the public feel more comfortable? One way is to convince a metropolis like New York to take seriously the matter of textile recycling, and to promote the recycling of old clothes among the public.

Catherine Garcia, a health official in New York who took office in April, said that their staff were working hard to promote the "New York second-hand fashion" plan, which included placing textile recycling bins outside the apartment buildings above 10 units.

other cities have adopted more active measures, namely, setting up recycling points for textiles and other recyclables on the roadside.

Towels, clothes, blankets and shoes collected in the Queen's Creek, Arizona are stored in special waterproof bags.

Other cities have designed new trash bins with recycled clothing.

Garcia said that there was no such recycling point in the roadside in New York. Such a plan needs to create a new place for only 6% of the new rubbish, and most importantly, if it rains, the textile can not be discarded like a glass bottle.

for this, many companies and organizations also have their own brilliant ideas.

Packmee, a project popularized in Germany and Holland, allows citizens to send their old clothes to textile recyclers free of charge.

In the United Kingdom and Canada, schools have become the focus of textile recycling, and parents can let their children get rid of their old clothes that are out of season.

In addition, American retailers such as Patagonia, H&M and Yilin Fisher also carried out in store recycling services.

These miscellaneous ways may help temporarily collect American waste clothes.