The Comprehensive Utilization Rate Of Waste Textiles Is Only 15%. How To Enlarge The Utilization Ratio?

Many people complain that "there is always one piece of clothing in the Wardrobe". After buying and buying, there are always some idle old clothes, some people send or donate them, and more people do it.

Data from the second International Forum on high value utilization technology of waste textiles show that the annual output of waste textiles in China is 20 million tons. If all recycling is used, it can save 24 million tons of crude oil annually and reduce 80 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

The low recycling rate is mainly related to the way of life and recycling channels of the public.

With the improvement of environmental awareness, many cities have launched recycling boxes and carry out voluntary recycling business.

Perhaps it can make more waste textiles alive.

Ways to recycle old clothes

Not only clothes, scarf, towels, quilts, curtains, carpets, sofa cushions and so on are also textile products, and the frequency of replacement of some products in the textile industry is relatively high.

At present, the total amount of waste textiles in China is nearly 100 million tons.

China Circular Economy Association data show that China's annual fiber processing total about 50 million tons, resulting in more than 20 million tons of waste textiles (including old clothing, old home textiles, leftover materials, etc.), the comprehensive utilization of waste textiles is about 3 million tons, the comprehensive utilization rate is only about 15%, most of the old clothes are used as garbage eventually to landfill or incinerate.

It is not difficult to see from this data that fiber processing products will produce nearly half of the waste, but not to be used rationally, and the harm produced can not be underestimated.

Clothes recycling boxes in the community

Although some community recycling boxes and online platforms have launched the "old clothes recycling" business, they do not get rid of most of the waste textiles.

"I didn't donate my old clothes in the recycling bin, probably late at work, and I didn't see anyone else donate."

Mr. Wang said in a residential district in Fengtai District, Beijing.

The more embarrassing scene in Wuyi Garden District in Tongzhou is that three bins are placed side by side, but the "community space" beside the sale of fruits and vegetables is quite conspicuous. Residents want to enter the recycling bin to donate old clothes, and they need to go through "encirclement".

In addition to the old clothes recycling bins, Jingdong, leisure fish, pfer and other platforms have opened the old clothes recycling business. The order is placed at APP, booking the door to pick up clothes, and the courier's free door-to-door recycling within the appointed time.

Users do not have to go upstairs and downstairs. Users can understand the old clothes dynamic and logistics details through mobile phone APP. The process is open and pparent.

However, the threshold of donation on the Internet platform is relatively high, and the recycling of old clothes is not less than 5 kilograms, which makes users with small recycling demand discouraged.

Status quo of recycle bin

China consumer daily visited Beijing Fusheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.

The warehouse in Licun has several bungalows in the corner of the ecological park which has been demolished. One of the houses is stacked with waste clothes wrapped in gunny bags.

The staff said that these old clothes nearly 4 tons, has been stacked for about 10 days, usually saved to more than 20 tons will be shipped to Jiangsu uniform sorting.

If the weather is cooler, the recycled clothes can also be increased.

"Many warehouses have been demolished, and the warehouse will soon be removed."

It is more difficult to classify than to "move" more frequently.

Some staff reluctantly said that even if the box clearly marked the scope of recovery, and the recycling bin will be mixed with domestic waste.

Beijing Fu Sheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is stacked with recycled clothing.

For the status quo of the recycling bin, Zhang Kun, chairman of Beijing Fusheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., told the China consumer news that there is little recycling box now, and more experiments are being carried out.

In Tsinghua Yuan street, residents can scan the two dimensional code to classify the rubbish into the classification box, get the integral exchange items, greatly reduce the difficulty of garbage sorting, and reduce the amount from the source.

China UNICEF "Yi Shan" public welfare project related responsible person said that in addition to the recycling box, they actively cooperate with other organizations and units, and now with Jingdong public welfare foundation to carry out "old clothes new life" activities, covering 13 cities throughout the country, couriers can be recovered on the door.

With efficient logistics output, the total number of packages recovered is 23410, the total weight of the package (including packaging) is 88.89 tons, the weight of the clothes is 83.56 tons, and the clothing is 334227 pieces, which is better than simply putting in the community.

It is understood that the utilization rate of old clothes recycling boxes is not high, and even before the Internet has even exposed the stolen bins in some cities, it has become a profit making tool for people with ulterior motives.

Two "living methods" of waste textiles

After many people donate clothes, they all have such doubts: where can the old clothes go?

Gu Mingming, Executive Deputy Secretary General of the strategic alliance of waste textiles comprehensive utilization technology innovation Association of China Circular Economy Association, said to the China consumer newspaper that the old clothes after being recycled will be sorted, and the old clothes with high value will be cleaned, sterilized and collaged, and donated to the poverty-stricken areas. The use of less valuable and damaged old clothes will be made for other products to be reused; materials not suitable for clothing reproduction can be decomposed by physical and chemical means.

And non-woven fabrics are used in industrial production.

It is understood that recycling enterprises and downstream factories to produce non-woven fabrics, road maintenance blankets, greenhouse insulation, automotive interior, air conditioning noise insulation cotton and heat insulation cotton products are recycled products.

After sorting, the price of the waste textiles is different. For example, after the sorting of the road maintenance material, it will be given to the manufacturer free of charge. The average price is 1600 yuan -1700 yuan per ton, but there are also logistics and labor costs.

Zhang Kunru said.

A person who has worked in the environmental protection industry for more than 10 years, who is not willing to be named, told the China consumer newspaper that the low value items were not collected, and the recovery industry chain is still not perfect.

Take recycling box as an example, it is necessary to regulate the box, and blindly laying will cause subsequent services and management to keep up.

Public interest also needs pparency, openness and credibility, but not moral kidnapping.

For the whereabouts of old clothes, Zhang Kun introduced that, in the 2016 and 2017, Fu Sheng environmental protection donated nearly 3 million pieces of old clothes. However, since the second half of 2017, donating old clothes has become difficult. Zhang Kun has seen through visits that some poor areas have already received a lot of clothes donated by caring people, and a lot of recycled old clothes are only recycled.

The future of green industry

According to the research conducted by BIR (International Recycling agency) at University of Copenhagen in Sweden in 2008, each reasonable use of 1 kilograms of waste textiles can reduce 3.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, save 6000 liters of water, reduce the use of 0.3 kilograms of chemical fertilizers and 0.2 kilograms of pesticides.

It has to be said that the recycling of waste textiles can reduce resource consumption and reduce waste, which is an important part of the green economy.

In August 2nd, 9 experts from the industry, including the China Academy of standardization, the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences and the China Plastics Processing Industry Association, made up an expert group to undertake the task of the "circulation industry standard project plan for 2017", which was undertaken by the general office of the Ministry of Commerce for recycling and Recycling Association of China.

The establishment and management standard of sorting centers (hereinafter referred to as "specifications") is examined and approved.

It is understood that the "specification" is also China's first renewable resource green.

Standard.

Gu Mingming said, waste textiles are renewable resources, renewable resources have different standards, standards do not rule him, at present, the recycling system is not perfect, the standard system is still in the establishment.

How to promote

Better development, Gu Mingming said, technology policy, concept is particularly important, technology to be relatively simple, there is a market on the enterprise R & D, to promote the use of regenerated products at all levels, so that the preferential more than the preferential products.

For example, some preferential subsidies on tax revenue, similar to household appliances for the old, may promote the development of this industry.

Cheng Huiqiang, a researcher with the Institute of resources and environmental policy of the development research center of the State Council, said that waste textiles can be combined with more advanced technologies, such as aerospace and semi rigid battery panels, which are based on textile materials.

Therefore, the textile industry itself is a traditional industry. At the same time, because of the accession of new technologies, it has also formed a green industry, and is booming to develop new energy industries for economic development.

Cheng Huiqiang believes that at present, a large number of domestic waste textile recycling industry is still at a primary level, which requires high and new technology to produce microcrystalline cellulose, bacterial cellulose and so on.

And strategy new

Environmental protection, health care and pension industry, emergency and public safety, key infrastructure and civil military integration are important ways to achieve the large-scale and industrial growth of the waste textile recycling industry itself.