Market Research: Where Should I Go Without Wearing Old Clothes?

Recently, Ms. Liu, a provincial city, called the editorial department of the people's livelihood weekly, saying that it was recently arranged.

At the same time, he turned out a pile of old clothes, and when he was a child, he had a whole bag that he had passed through in the past years.

Ms. Liu wants to consult, where should these old clothes be sent to? Where would you like to ask where there are old clothes?

Many people are asking questions like this after entering the winter every year.

Yes, almost every household has old clothes that are not worn. Where should we send them? This reporter has conducted a follow-up investigation on the whereabouts of "old clothes" and learned that after the various scenes of "buying old clothes", we also found several kinds of "old clothes".

A new way.

Donated to the disaster areas and poverty-stricken areas

Many people first think of "offering love" and sending old clothes that are not worn to the disaster areas and poverty-stricken areas to donate to those in need.

So, does the donation point send these old clothes to the people in need? What exactly is the "whereabouts" of the old clothes?

With this question, the reporter interviewed Song Lixin, the founder of Longcheng volunteer organization.

Song Lixin has been engaged in public welfare for ten years.

For a long time, he wanted to do public works for the recycling of old clothes, but the idea was too long because of the high cost of cleaning and disinfection.

Until last year, he got acquainted with a public welfare organization in Chongqing. Because of the support of the local government, the cost of cleaning and pportation is not a problem.

This also enabled him to have the courage to start this business in the capital city.

Narrator: Song Lixin, 41 years old, Taiyuan

In July 2013, I began to set up the old clothes recycling point in the provincial capital.

Because there is no need to consider a series of processes after the clothing recycling, so my job is very simple, as long as the collection of clothes, find the car to send them to Chongqing.

Freight and clothing disinfection and cleaning and other follow-up work will take place in Chongqing.

Fu Lai Tong Guarantee Corporation, the Fifth Avenue North Street, is the first clothing donation point I set up.

The boss of the company is very supportive of me, making a small warehouse of 10 square meters in the company for clothing storage.

Not only that, but also mobilize the staff to do this with me.

The company also moved part of the funds to help me print the publicity page, and set up a batch of cups as a feedback to the doners.

Those who donate more than 10 clothes will get an exquisite cup, worth about 17 yuan.

Of course, we also have requirements for the clothes we donate. We do not accept cotton as a filler, because it is too troublesome to clean and disinfect.

Moreover, we will make simple checks on the safety of clothes.

On the day of the activity, the scene was very popular, and nearby residents donated their clothes that were left unused.

In the first two days, we collected almost two tons of old clothes.

Later, with the support of my friends and relatives, I set up more than 20 clothing collection points, depending on some shops or companies, which are distributed in different streets of the provincial capital.

In April 20, 2013, a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred in Lushan County, Ya'an City, Sichuan province. The rescue team of Tianlong rescue team in Shanxi province rushed to the scene for rescue.

When we learned that the disaster area needed some warm clothing, we actively publicize the call and recall a lot of clothes such as cotton clothes.

The clothes returned should be sorted first, hand washing and machine washing should be separated.

After washing, it is necessary to re dye the color which is more serious. Some of the leather clothes need color care, and the holes on the clothes should be darned, and the zippers should be replaced.

Finally, send the clothes to the UV disinfection cabinet.

A garment has seven or eight processes to ensure the safety and hygiene of clothes.

Take a cotton thick coat as an example. It will take more than 3 hours to complete the whole process, and the normal cost will be about 200 yuan.

More than 300 clothes, at least 60 thousand yuan for cleaning expenses! Fortunately, a dry cleaning shop has done this work for us free of charge.

After that, we successfully sent clothes through the public welfare organizations in Chongqing to the disaster area.

After that, the public welfare organizations in Chongqing did not make clothes recycling, and how to deal with the collected clothes became a problem.

In view of the long experience of public welfare, I know that some places in the provincial capital are in need of clothes, such as the family of disabled children welfare homes in small shops and the social welfare spirit of Ge Liao Valley, such as Corelle hospital.

Take psychiatric nursing homes. Most of the patients are mentally derelict wanderers, or abandoned infants. After they are sent to sanatorium, there is basically no laundry.

The cost of clothes is also a small number for hospitals.

Therefore, after communication and contact, we simply sort out the clothes collected, and classify them according to different standards such as men and women, adults, children (children, children), underwear and so on. We will pack the clothes and label them, and send them to the welfare homes at irregular intervals.

Besides, I will send my clothes to the poor schools around the provincial capital.

Before pporting the clothes, I will ask them what kind of clothes, coats, sweaters or trousers they need. When they are sent over, they will let the children pick their own clothes.

At the same time, I will emphasize that after going home, we must disinfect clothes.

In this way, the old clothes I recovered were found to be "marketable".

Later, I found an enterprise in Hebei, which specializes in clothing recycling, and will conduct two processing and processing of old clothes.

In this way, the clothes I recycle can basically be "digested".

It sounds as if I have done quite well, but in fact, over the past two years, we have also faced many bottlenecks.

First of all, there is a shortage of large warehouses for storing and recycling clothes. Although there are various recycling points, the old clothes that need not be relocated need to be rehoused. When the waste clothes reach a certain amount, the talents of Hebei factories will come to collect them.

So, there must be a warehouse. Later, I spent 400 yuan to rent a 300 square meter open-air warehouse, a warehouse that only had no shelter around the roof, which was barely used to store the clothes left for being picked.

Although these clothes have "safe haven", I am worried that they will have a fire if the conditions are simple. If someone accidentally throws a cigarette butt, it will be troublesome.

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Field side voice

Not all old clothes can be donated to others.

Wu Liang is the head of Taiyuan city civilization office and provincial city love volunteers Union. He is only 26 years old this year. He has had many years of experience in caring volunteers.

He said that this organization has been established for two years. At the beginning of its establishment, we all wanted to give these caring people a unified organization, to help orphans and orphans, or orphans and disabled children regularly, and to participate in some volunteer activities organized by some units.

The strength of unity is greater than that of several people.

Narrator: Wu Liang, Taiyuan, 26 years old

As we all know, during the season changing season, many families will pack up a pile of old clothes. A little caring person will think about letting their clothes play some residual heat. After all, they are all clean things, and it is a pity to throw them away.

Our country is not too rich and difficult to buy clothes.

But I want to tell you a story about donating clothes. I want to tell you that when we donate love, we should have a "degree".

Before this year's "61", we carried out a "61 dream action" for a poor school in Yangqu, and sent new school uniforms, new yellow cap and a love bag to the children there.

In the early days of the field visit, I was in a classroom being built, and saw half a house stacked with almost more than 1000 old clothes.

The person in charge of the school told me that those were sent by some former public welfare organizations and caring people. It was not clear whether they had been cleaned. In short, the students came over and turned over several times, and almost no one was willing to take away.

The first reason is that some clothes are dirty, and there are many underwear that is worn by autumn clothes and pants.

I walked around and looked at it. It was like the teacher said, the clothes were in a mess, the underwear was covered, and there were women's bra pants in it.

To be honest, there are indeed some hard and hard people in the villages and towns around Taiyuan, but people are also dignified by being poor. Dirty clothes make people look very uncomfortable.

Last year, we also made a donation of old clothes, which was donated to the disaster area of Gansu. We collected tens of thousands of clothes and sent them to the dry cleaners to wash them. Then we carried out UV disinfection and packaged them before sending them.

Sending out old clothes to give people is actually a manifestation of love, but I hope you all understand that there should be a degree of love, and we should think more about what kind of things we want from the perspective of donors.

Pack it up and put it next to the trash bin to get the garbage collector away.

Some people pack their clothes and put them next to the garbage cans in the neighborhood, hoping that someone in need will take them away.

After these clothes have been cleared away, will they continue to "play the role of waste heat"?

The old Wei is a native of Henan. Over the past decade, it has been working in the gatehouse of a small town in the capital city. Apart from being optimistic about the gate, it is also responsible for cleaning up the sanitation in the district.

At the same time, they pick up paper boxes and things like that, and sell them to the waste purchasing station.

Around the garbage bin, he often saw a bag of clothes thrown away.

Though it was lost, the old Wei would open it up again and pick it up again.

Narrator: 54 years old, old town of Wei

Our generation has been accustomed to frugality and can not afford to waste.

Every time I have old clothes in front of the trash can, I have to open it and have a look.

Some clothes and articles look like new ones, and they can still be worn and worn. So it's a pity that they are thrown away.

I pick it up, take it home, wash it, scald it with boiling water, or bask in the sun, and dress it for myself or for my family.

Not good clothes, nor do we want to go directly to the garbage disposal station with rubbish.

For a long time, the residents of the community found that I wore the clothes they threw away, so they would take the old clothes directly to the porter and let me pick them up.

I am familiar with the people in the community. I don't feel like wearing the clothes they don't want.

Over the past decade, our family has passed many old clothes that other people sent us, including of course.

About last year, I discovered that the waste purchase station began to collect old clothes, and a catty could sell 20 Fen.

Later, I put the old clothes that I could not wear.