Top Priority: Promoting Recycling Of Waste Textiles And Garments

In recent years, environmental protection has become a major issue in the society.

Become a hot topic, many people do not know how to deal with old clothes, at present, our country to promote the recycling of waste textiles and clothing, has become.

First of all, promoting the recycling of waste textile and clothing can reduce waste of resources and relieve the pressure of insufficient resources.

The resources of the textile and garment industry come from the storage and consumption of nature. Cotton is the green resource that the ecological consumption of natural resources is the least in the textile and garment industry. Although wool and plants are also renewable resources, they consume a lot of natural food. The major proportion of the chemical fiber products, which are the larger proportion of textile products, comes from petroleum, while the latter is non renewable fossil energy.

As an industrial product, the energy consumption of clothing seems to be lower than that of other products, such as automobiles and paper making.

In fact, the completion of a garment involves complex industrial chains and massive energy consumption.

Even an ordinary cotton garment, including cotton planting, fertilization, harvesting, weaving and printing and dyeing, consumes a lot of resources in every link.

China is a big exporter of textiles, but it is also a big exporter of textiles.

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In addition to importing mulberry silk, it is necessary to import large quantities of petrochemical raw materials for cotton, wool and synthetic fiber every year.

Due to the rising price of international oil and cotton, it is urgent to realize the circular development of the textile and garment industry.

However, the comprehensive utilization rate of waste textiles in China is not high.

Taking 2011 as an example, the total amount of waste textiles is more than 26 million tons, the comprehensive utilization amount is only 2 million 300 thousand tons, and the comprehensive utilization rate is less than 10%.

If the old clothes are recycled or regenerated, they will help reduce cotton consumption, save resources for society and alleviate the shortage of raw material resources in China.

Second, promoting the recycling of waste textiles and garments can alleviate the environmental problems arising from the processing and processing of textiles and garments.

In the whole process of the life cycle of textile and clothing, it involves resources grabbing and environmental pollution.

From the initial stage of textile and garment industry chain, namely raw material production, with the generation of pollutants, the atmosphere, water environment, organisms and human beings pose different degrees of harm.

Garment processing, especially

It will discharge large quantities of waste water, and its components are complex and difficult to handle. During the post-processing of garments, workers will directly or indirectly contact various chemicals, which will affect human health.

Finally, disposal of waste clothes by burning or landfill not only causes waste of resources, but also damages the ecological environment.

Because of the need for clothing performance, synthetic fibers are increasingly being applied to clothing.

However, synthetic fiber has a relatively large molecular weight and contains no degradable active matrix, so synthetic fibers are mostly difficult to degrade, and can cause soil pollution for hundreds of years.

In order to avoid environmental pollution, recycling and reuse of waste textile fibers is attracting more and more attention in recent years.

Thirdly, promoting the recycling of waste textiles and garments can reduce carbon emissions and achieve green and sustainable development.

As the largest textile exporter in the world, our products are mainly exported to the European Union, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions.

At present, exports to these countries and regions are still growing at a high speed.

Developed countries and regions such as the United States, Japan and Europe have set up green trade barriers with environmental protection regulations, safety and hygiene standards, green logo certification and so on, relying on their advantages in science and technology and environmental protection.

Every year, a large number of textiles and garments in China are restricted by green trade barriers, resulting in blocked exports or being returned.

With the increasing attention of the international community on the issue of climate change, low carbon trade barriers represented by carbon tariffs have become a new green barrier.

Because of the backward technology and equipment, China's textile and garment industry is hard to reach the carbon emission standards formulated by developed countries. Once the carbon tariff system is implemented, it will become the target of carbon tariffs.

Recycling and recycling of waste textiles and garments can reduce the carbon emissions of clothing from the source of production.

At the same time, the textile industry uses a large number of recycled textiles, which can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions compared with the processing and production of raw materials.

Fourth, promoting the recycling and reuse of textile and garment industry is both imminent and promising.

We should mainly work in the following aspects: changing ideas and vigorously promoting the recycling, recycling and recycling of textile and garment industry.

Tackling key problems, establishing recycling system and operating by professional organizations.

The government departments should give the necessary support to the tax, capital and other aspects of the recycling, processing and reusing industry of waste and old textile and clothing.

Technological innovation should be carried out to reduce edge residual material and reduce the production of textile waste.

There are many problems in recycling and reusing waste textiles and garments.

The recovery and reuse of waste textiles and garments in China has achieved initial results in recent years, but there are still urgent problems to be solved, such as disorderly recycling, backward management, lack of standards and low level of processing.

Lack of relevant laws and regulations and policy support.

China's existing laws, policies and local standards related to waste classification, recovery and reuse, lack of relevant policies and systems for the recycling and reuse of waste textiles and clothing, can not meet the needs of the recycling and reuse of waste textiles at present.

In terms of the construction of waste textiles recycling and reuse system, no progress has been made in legislation.

For example, the circular economy promotion law stipulates specific requirements for establishing and improving the recycling system of renewable resources, recycling and utilization of waste electronic products, dismantling and dismantling motor vehicles and ships, remanufacturing electromechanical products, and recycling of domestic waste and sludge.

However, the contents of waste or garbage collection and treatment are not included in the laws and regulations, and there are no detailed rules for implementation.

The "12th Five-Year plan" of the textile industry refers to the recovery and reuse of textile and clothing, but there are no specific requirements and mandatory requirements, and lack of a systematic incentive and evaluation mechanism.

There is no effective operation and management mechanism for recycling and reuse.

At present, apart from a few regular enterprises, the main force of waste clothing treatment in our country is the individual Recovery Army that is spread all over the city and countryside.

Most of them are spontaneously formed and stragglers are mostly semi underground.

According to the investigation by the relevant departments, the guerrilla teams that reclaim the old clothing generally have such problems as small scale, backward processing methods and poor hygienic conditions.

In addition, there is a serious lack of reverse logistics system.

In fact, our country lacks effective reuse channels and institutions for the waste in clothing production, the recycling of old clothing in sales, and the inventory of enterprise products.

The existing channel is a very small number of enterprises, residents' committees or volunteer behavior, and in most cases, it will end.

Lack of corresponding classification standards and monitoring standards.

At present, there is no classification standard of waste clothing in China, which makes it difficult to recycle and reuse.

At the same time, as the textile waste reprocessing technology is relatively backward and the entry threshold is low, the quality of recycled fiber and hygiene and safety are not guaranteed.

At present, the recycling technology of waste clothing is not enough, and the key technology innovation capability is weak.

Recycling still stays at the low level of technology and the degradation of waste materials.

For example, the redesign of waste clothing is mainly manifested in the fact that the physical form is greatly reduced, and a large number of low-level products are developed. It is far from achieving the value of recycling, and can not solve the substantive problems.

Measures and suggestions for promoting the recovery and reuse of waste textiles and garments

In view of the problems existing in the recycling of waste textiles and garments, the author makes the following suggestions:

First, establish corresponding policies and standards.

Laws and regulations are powerful means to ensure the effective management and utilization of waste textiles.

Therefore, the government should actively introduce the classification standards, recycling system and reuse policies of waste textiles in China, so as to ensure the effective utilization of waste textiles from the policy level, so as to improve the recovery rate of waste textiles, and ultimately achieve the purpose of reducing the total amount of urban refuse.

China can draw lessons from the successful experience of the European Union, formulate clear laws and regulations and corresponding testing and evaluation standards, and guide and regulate the recycling and reuse of waste textiles.

For example, clearly stipulate the disinfection methods and standards of waste textiles, and stipulate hygienic standards and quality standards for regenerated products of waste textiles.

Second, the establishment of relevant institutions or organizations.

The recycling organization of waste textiles in Europe and the United States has played an important role in promoting recycling.

China should set up a special recycling and reuse institution for waste textiles according to the actual situation of the domestic textile industry.

This mechanism can be used as a bridge between producers and sellers, so that the recycling and utilization of waste textiles will gradually form an industrial chain, and promote the development of recycling and reuse of waste textiles in China.

Third, establish a third party enterprise recovery mode.

In order to avoid the confusion and dispersion of waste textile and garment recycling, we should standardize the management of garment recycling market.

The responsibility of clothing recycling should be mainly borne by environmental protection agencies, commercial companies or community service agencies.

The government should introduce policies to actively support the third party recycling enterprises (including environmental protection institutions and community service organizations, specialized recycling companies, etc.) and clothing manufacturing enterprises, and guide the recycling of retailers or individual consumers, so that they can return the recycled clothing to the production enterprises or the third party specialized recycling companies.

The third party recycling enterprises can promote the recovery and reuse of waste textile and clothing through cooperation with garment production enterprises.

Fourth, support and encourage re-use of technological innovation.

The "12th Five-Year plan" of China's textile industry has included the recycling and reuse technology of waste textiles into one of the key projects for the sustainable development of energy conservation and emission reduction in the textile industry.

In the future, relevant departments should support and encourage the research and development of recycling technologies of waste textiles from their respective perspectives, and incorporate them into the catalogue of environmental protection technologies encouraged by the state according to circumstances.

We should establish a strategic cooperative organization of industrial technology innovation cooperation, take enterprises as the main body and market as the guidance, integrate the relevant organizations such as industry organizations, scientific research institutions, intermediary institutions (accreditation, standards, etc.), and enterprises (upstream and downstream, equipment and accessories) in the field of comprehensive utilization of waste textiles, jointly construct the technological innovation system of comprehensive utilization of waste textiles, and solve the key problems of common industry with the cooperation platform of industry, University and research, and establish a benign operation mechanism.

Fifth, in terms of fiscal and taxation policies, the state should give necessary support to the circular development of the garment and textile industry.

On the one hand, it supports technology research and development and innovation.

In the production process of textile and garment industry, we must ensure that it is green and clean.

The state finance should give necessary support to the research and development of clothing recycling.

In terms of Taxation, some concessions can be given.

On the other hand, the state gives necessary support to the production process and production links.

The measures include: the state finance gives investment subsidies; when the capital of enterprises in the production process is not enough, and when they need to obtain bank loans, the state finance should give discount loans in the loan process, and give the investment credit policy in terms of taxation.

In addition, some preferential policies should be given in the sales process, including preferential income tax and value-added tax.

In addition, publicity and promotion should be strengthened.