Recycled Fiber From Old Clothes Can Alleviate The Shortage Of Raw Material Resources In China.

The "government work report" released just now by the "two sessions" has pointed out the direction for the development of China's manufacturing industry. Faced with such a goal, reporters can not help but think of waste water and steam treatment has been restricting the textile industry to the direction of environmental protection factors, as if to create. Green textile industry Still very far away. However, a recent "old clothes zero abandonment" campaign has changed the idea of journalists. It is not far from small things to create green industries.

Lao Zhao's green textile dream

Referring to the topic of environmental protection, Zhao Likui, who is making the final deployment for the activities of "old clothes and zero abandonment" into Yangzhou Guangling District, became excited. Suddenly, the chairman of the Nanjing weave new textile technology Co., Ltd. revealed her radiance. In his view, environmental protection is not a lofty thing, but everyone's hands. Zhao Likui said: "in big cities, there are many old clothes and home textile products that will not be worn or reused in everyone's wardrobe, and the final trend of these clothes is usually buried or burned without any use value. According to data from the China Resources Comprehensive Utilization Association, there are about 26 million tons of old clothes thrown away by the Chinese people every year. They are mostly disposed of by garbage and buried and burned. Only in the Yangzhou area with a population of 4 million 600 thousand, it produces at least 50 thousand tons of waste textiles per year. We hope to awaken people's charitable and environmental awareness, donate clothes that are not worn, be sorted by professional bodies, make good use of clothes for two times, and send them to those in need, and most of the textiles that are not suitable for re dressing are used to make recycled fibers.

It is with this conviction that Zhao Likui joined the activities of "zero abandonment of old clothes" sponsored by the Ministry of civil affairs, the China Textile Federation and the all China Women's Federation. The company became the only unit to undertake the activity in Nanjing.

How to turn old clothes into treasure? "To transform rubbish into resources, we need to recycle it first, and then cooperate with later sorting." Therefore, our short-term goal is to create the most professional textile recovery and sorting center in China, classify all kinds of clothes with the same material and sort them for physical selection, so as to provide a possibility for further reuse, and more importantly, physical sorting will not cause two pollution and relieve environmental pressure. To solve the pollution problem of waste textiles thoroughly, the key lies in garbage degradation and resource regeneration. In the future, regenerated fiber will become a normal demand product in the textile industry, which is in line with the requirement of recycling resources. Zhao Likui said this is his ultimate dream.

Zhao Likui said that in Shanghai, a 70 year old man began to study the recycling and reuse of waste textiles earlier than he did. In fact, there are many "Zhao" in the country doing the same thing, because they know that if our waste textiles are recycled, the annual chemical fiber and natural fiber can save 24 million tons of crude oil, which is equivalent to half the output of Daqing oilfield, and can reduce 80 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions and save nearly 1/3 of cotton planting area. In order to realize the dream of green textile, "Lao Zhao" is constantly moving forward.

Turning waste into treasure is a difficult step.

From an industrial point of view, if the old clothes are recycled, they will be generated. Regenerated fiber It can alleviate the shortage of raw material resources in China. Sun Huaibin, Deputy Secretary General of the China Textile Industry Federation and deputy director of the Environmental Protection Commission, said: "due to shortage of resources, China needs to import large quantities of petrochemical raw materials for cotton, wool and synthetic fiber every year. China has become a major importer of textile materials worldwide. If the waste textiles are reused for high value and form a closed circular economy mode of "resource products consumption renewable resources", the import dependence of China's textile materials can be greatly reduced.

According to Sun Huaibin, the developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Europe have long begun to scrap. Old fabrics The relevant laws and regulations and strategic objectives have been formulated through recycling and recycling. The government's active support has greatly promoted the recovery and reuse of waste textiles.

However, the comprehensive reuse of waste textiles has not really formed industrialization in China, and most of the waste textiles have not been comprehensively utilized. When asked about the reasons, sun Huaibin said, "first of all, the scale of small and medium-sized enterprises that are engaged in the recycling of waste textiles is small and scattered. In addition, the state lacks corresponding policies and laws and regulations, and there are hidden dangers and disorderly competition in the industry. Secondly, the production cost of waste textiles forming renewable resources is relatively high. As a matter of fact, there is no shortage of waste textiles in the market. For example, Jiangsu health medical dressing Co., Ltd. made use of pure cotton waste textile regenerated yarn to make grey cloth for medical dressing. However, because the production cost of recycled fiber is higher than that of raw fiber, the demand for downstream products is not high. At present, the production cost of recycled fiber is 1.8 times higher than that of raw fiber. "

Zhao Likui said: "the fundamental reason for the high cost is not the formation of the industrial chain and industrial scale. In addition, the society has a low awareness of recycled fiber and needs to strengthen the popularization of relevant knowledge to the public.

Indeed, in Japan and Europe and the United States, most consumers already use renewable resources as a way of life. However, the people in Yangzhou who participated in the donation activities were still skeptical about the regenerated fiber. They asked, "is the clothes made from these old clothes processed and cleaned again? Is it safe?" this shows that the reuse of waste textiles in China is stagnant and the popularity is low. In order to form a market for the waste textiles, the support of government policies, the standardization and scale development of enterprises, and the support of consumers can not be reduced.