White Paper On Environmental Benefit Evaluation Of Old Clothes Recycling And Resource Utilization

With the attention of international brands to sustainable development, and have formulated the corresponding response objectives and implementable programs, circular and sustainable development has become an important trend of global textile industry development. As a responsibility oriented green industry, the establishment and improvement of a green and low-carbon cycle industrial system is an important symbol and basic bottom line to realize the high-quality development of the whole industry“ "Zero abandonment of old clothes" aims to maximize the effective use of resources and minimize the waste of waste resources. Zero abandonment is both a goal and an action plan.

On March 18, an exchange meeting on the utilization of waste textile resources in textile industry was held in Shanghai. In addition to commending the units and individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the action of "zero abandonment of old clothes", the activity also officially released the environmental benefit evaluation report on the recycling and recycling of used clothes.

Sun Huaibin, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, said in his speech that during the "14th five year plan" period, under the background of the world's unprecedented great changes in a century and China's construction of a new "double cycle" development pattern, under the guidance of national carbon peak and carbon neutralization goals, the textile industry promotes green and low-carbon circular development Promoting the comprehensive green transformation of the industry will become the general trend and important policy.

He pointed out that China is the world's largest textile and clothing producer and consumer, with an annual fiber consumption of about 30 million tons and per capita fiber consumption of 22.4 kg, basically reaching the level of moderately developed countries. About 6 million tons of waste textiles (excluding stock) are produced in the production and consumption links every year, and the annual growth rate is more than 10%. However, due to the system and mechanism, recycling system, sorting method, technology and standards and other reasons, the raw materials are mainly PET bottle pieces and a small amount of industrial waste, and the amount of old clothing fabrics from urban and rural residents is small, and the overall recycling efficiency of waste textiles is low.

He stressed that the "zero abandonment of old clothes" brand action project is a cross industry industrial chain cooperation project, especially with the influential international brand decathlon; Secondly, this is a real sense of the old clothing resources recycling (docking with the textile industry system) closed-loop mode pilot; Thirdly, it is the embodiment of "zero" abandonment of old clothes, so as to maximize the utilization rate and form multiple recycling utilization, such as recycled down, polyester, cotton, etc; Finally, the whole recycling process is tracked and the whole value chain is evaluated to provide reference for the establishment of the business model for the recycling of old clothes.

Cheng Jie, deputy director of the industry department of China Textile Federation, said that during the "14th five year plan" period, the textile industry will put forward new requirements in terms of ecological civilization construction and green development. The construction of ecological civilization system and the promotion of green transformation of economic and social development put forward higher requirements and rare opportunities for the textile industry to establish and improve the green low-carbon circular development industrial system. CFA will carry out extensive cooperation, establish pilot demonstration and promote industrial development. At the meeting, he also read out the decision to build a research and development platform for comprehensive utilization of waste textile resources with the Fifth Institute of electronics of the Ministry of industry and information technology, set up a dismantling Center for used clothes (down products) in Donglong Home Textile Co., Ltd., carry out industry pilot demonstration, and further promote the standardization construction of down textile resources recycling industry.

Wang Lin, head of the comprehensive utilization of resources business of China Textile Federation environmental protection and assets supervision committee, shared the specific situation of the "zero abandonment of old clothes" brand special action led by China Textile Federation environmental protection and Resources Supervision Committee and organized decathlon decathlon, Shanghai Donglong, Guangde Tianyun and Shanghai Chuangyi municipal enterprises. Through the cooperation with decathlon brand and WWF WWF, we not only publicized the concept that old clothes can be recycled, but also explored the closed-loop mode of old clothes recycling.

At the meeting, the environmental protection and Assets Supervision Committee of China Textile Federation officially released the environmental benefit evaluation report on the recycling and recycling of used clothes. The report pointed out that in the operation process of "decathlon brand used clothing recycling and recycling mode", the Fifth Research Institute of electronics of the Ministry of industry and information technology collected the process data of waste textiles recycling and recycling, The environmental benefits of the whole recycling and recycling process of waste textiles were evaluated and analyzed. According to the main resources and energy consumption and pollutant emissions in the process of primary plastic pallet, primary down production and waste clothing recycling and utilization mode, five kinds of environmental impact indicators were selected for calculation and analysis.

Compared with the original plastic pallet, the production of one recycled tray can reduce energy consumption by 467mj, reduce carbon dioxide (equivalent) emission by 9.7kg, and reduce the overall environmental impact by 67.9%; Compared with the original down, the energy consumption and carbon dioxide (equivalent) emission of 1kg recycled down are reduced by 1140mj and 178kg respectively, and the overall environmental impact is reduced by 99.3%; Through the operation of decathlon waste textile recycling and resource utilization mode, the energy consumption can be effectively reduced, and the environmental impact such as greenhouse benefit, photochemical ozone, acidification and eutrophication can be reduced, which has good environmental benefits. This report verified the effectiveness, applicability and popularization of decathlon waste textile recycling and recycling mode, provided a scientific basis for promoting the construction of recycling, sorting, production, procurement and recycling system of recycled products in waste textiles, and provided support for the construction of recycling system of waste textile resources.

She said that during the "14th five year plan" period, CFA's environmental protection and assets supervision committee will strengthen multi-party cooperation and carry out the construction of demonstration bases for comprehensive utilization of waste textiles; Support the technological innovation of enterprises, especially the key technological breakthroughs in the recycling of waste textile resources; We should increase the directional recycling, cascade utilization and standardized treatment of used clothes, and make technological breakthroughs, model innovation and product design run through the whole process of the industrial chain; Promote the construction of public service platform for the industrial application of waste textile resources "recycling production use recycling". In the future, more special actions will be launched to carry out basic research, give play to the guiding role of the industry, and use market mechanism to promote the construction of industrial chain of waste textiles recycling at the source of resources.

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