Industry Analysis: Prospects For The Reuse Of Old Clothes And Waste Textiles

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As well as a large garment producing country, it is a fast growing clothing consumption market in the world and the largest garment producer and exporter in the world.

Therefore, the waste textiles such as old clothes and so on every year are also natural. However, the recycling of waste textiles is still relatively weak. It is understood that at present, the recycling of waste textiles in China is still in the initial stage, and the sales volume and recycling rate of waste textiles are still very low.

The total amount of fiber processing in China is about 50 million tons per year, and over 20 million tons of waste textiles are produced in the year. The comprehensive utilization of waste textiles is about 3 million tons, and the comprehensive utilization rate is only about 15%.

It is estimated that if the comprehensive utilization rate of waste textiles reaches 60%, it can produce 9 million 400 thousand tons of chemical fiber and 4 million 700 thousand tons of natural fiber in the year, equivalent to saving 15 million 200 thousand tons of crude oil and saving 13 million 600 thousand mu of arable land, which will effectively alleviate the shortage of resources in the textile industry.

The potential of comprehensive utilization of waste textiles is huge.

At present, China's waste textiles are mainly divided into waste textiles and old textiles.

A small part of the waste was digested by the enterprise itself, most of which had specialized agencies to acquire, 90% of the waste can be recycled and basically dried up, and the old textiles were large and there was no specialized agency for recycling, most of which existed in the consumer's home, which not only caused the waste of resources, but also became a "drag" in the homes of ordinary people.

Recycling and reuse of waste textiles is the only way to meet the requirements of ecology, green, low carbon and environmental friendliness, and has attracted more and more attention.

How to turn waste textiles into treasure and carry out green application is the common responsibility of enterprises, industry and society.

With the innovation of physical and chemical technology and the support of the state in the application of green waste textiles in industrial policy, the trend of green development of waste textile industry will become more obvious.

When waste textiles are discarded as refuse, they are usually treated by burning or landfill. Incineration not only consumes energy such as coal and electricity, but also produces a large amount of pollutants, including carbon dioxide and so on. Landfill not only takes up land, but also produces harmful substances that pollute water, soil and air.

If the old clothes are used for the two time, they are used as rag and refurbishment, and then processed into regenerated fibers as the skeleton of the composite material, or after adding physical or chemical technology to produce new products, for packaging materials and other fields, it can continue to realize its use value.

China's "opinions on accelerating the construction of ecological civilization" put forward the requirements of "recycling economy and encouraging the recycling of textiles and other waste products". "Circular economy development strategy and short-term action plan" also made clear the key work of "promoting the standardized development of waste textiles recycling, strengthening the recycling of production waste and scrap materials", which is the long-term development direction of the comprehensive utilization of waste textiles.

According to the data of China Textile and Apparel Association, there are huge business opportunities in China's old clothes recycling market, with a maximum profit of about 60 billion yuan.

Some countries and enterprises have already gone out of a different recycling way in the recycling of old clothes and other waste textiles.

Sweden's fashion brand H&M has launched the "old clothes recycling" project in Shanghai, Wuhan and other cities.

The bags are sent to the store and exchanged for coupons or discount cards to buy new clothes.

After receiving the old clothes, H&M after a simple sorting work, the United shipped back to Sweden, to a local recycling company for later recycling.

The company's official website shows that the recycled old clothes will be classified and evaluated according to more than 400 different standards, and then recycled and reused.

For example: making articles such as rag, producing textile fibers or used in the automotive industry, manufacturing damping and insulation materials.

In addition, the United States has formed a complete waste.

Recycling industry chain: after the waste materials are recovered by the recyclers, they will go directly to the second-hand shops to screen, and the materials sold by the second-hand stores will be sold back to the recyclers. After sorting, the items will enter the two tier market.

Textiles entering the two tier market, 45% as second-hand clothing exported to Africa and other countries, 30% were cut into dishcloth and industrial wipes, 20% returned to the fiber state, and the last 5% could not be used as wet, mildew and other can not be used as garbage disposal.

The recovery and reuse of waste textiles is of great benefit to the present.

It is understood that at present, the global textile industry has encountered the problem of tight supply of raw materials and energy.

The lack of fiber, fresh water, oil and electricity has a direct impact on the production of enterprises, and the supply situation of fiber is particularly severe.

The annual output of garments in China is absolutely astronomical. If textile can be recycled, it is not only a great good for the country and the people, but also one of the directions for the future development of the world textile industry.

Therefore, the recovery and utilization of waste textiles will meet the needs of the development of the textile industry.

For more information, please pay attention to the world clothing shoe and hat net information report.