What Is The Difficulty Of Recycling Old Clothes?

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< p > Hangzhou Wenhui street, in the community placed several cute panda shaped boxes, the box reads "old clothes recycling", which is designed by Hangzhou Shenqi company's waste clothing recycling bins.

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< p > community residents can donate waste clothes anytime and anywhere.

Once the box is full of old clothes, the environmental envoys will call Hangzhou Shenqi related staff, they will come to collect old clothes.

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< p > "recycled old clothes will be manually dismantled first and classified according to the raw material categories of < a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > > clothes < /a > into chemical fiber, polyester, cotton and so on.

Then we turn to specialized factories for recycling and reuse, and become new products such as gloves, carpets, hats and so on.

Li Zhen, deputy general manager of Shenqi, Hangzhou, sounds good.

Hangzhou Shenqi store tried to recycle the waste clothes a few years ago. At that time, it thought that the value of raw materials such as wool, leather, cotton and chemical fiber was high, and sold to some downstream processing factories could sell a good price.

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< p > "however, the real difficulty is that the technology is too difficult to handle."

Li Zhen said that if the waste textiles were recovered according to the ideal state of commercialization, they could be sorted according to different categories, such as cotton, wool, chemical fiber and blending. After disinfection, the downstream processing plants should be loosened (mechanically reduced to fiber state), then the raw materials sold after loosening were sold to textile enterprises for reengineering, and finally sold to garment enterprises for production.

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< p > the difficulty is that the vast majority of the recycled clothing in China is blended at present. The traditional mechanical loosening means is difficult to separate all kinds of fibers, and the difficulty of technology, environmental protection requirements and cost will be very high if separated by chemical means.

Li Zhen said, at present, some experts in the schools of China Textile University and Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology can only do this in the laboratory, but there is no such requirement for commercial use.

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< p > in this project, Hangzhou Shenqi is only responsible for recycling. The waste clothes recovered from various communities are counted as pportation cost, labor cost and disinfection cost. The cost per ton is 360 yuan.

The vast majority of these old clothes are blended. The raw materials of the blended materials can not separate and recycle different fibers, but can only produce low-end textiles, which can not sell well.

Through regular channels, the price of downstream specialized factories is usually only 150 yuan / ton.

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< p > a staff member from another resource recovery company in the province told reporters that even through a non formal channel, the sale of a ton of old clothes to a small processing plant can only earn hundreds of yuan, with a very small profit.

Another reason is that the storage cost of waste clothing is too high, and it is heavy and occupied. It is also easy to mold and the cost is high.

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< p > industry insiders told reporters that there are three difficulties in the recycling of waste textiles, which are mainly focused on raw materials collection, processing, non pollution and market value added.

Only when there is demand in the market will more people be willing to do it.

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What is the situation of the downstream companies of the recycling enterprises? The Zhejiang beauty New Material Co., Ltd., located in Shaoxing, is a recycling system called ECO CIRCLE introduced by the Seiko group through a joint venture with Japanese enterprises.

With this system, the recycled garments can be broken down and made into fibers and woven into cloth and then made into garments.

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< p > Jiang Feng, chief executive of the company, introduces that the main product of recycling is polyester, because the raw material of chemical fiber is petroleum.

The main principle of the technology of the company is to break up the molecules of clothing and cloth, and then restore the fabric into the state of petroleum products after reverse cracking. At this time, pigments and other useless molecules will be filtered out, and after repolymerization, they will become new fibers and eventually be woven into cloth.

At present, the utilization rate of the old clothing will reach 80%.

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< p > however, Jiang Feng also said that because of the complicated process and expensive equipment, the fibers produced were not cheap.

"The price will be about 50%~80% higher than that of ordinary fiber, and the main supplier will be a more environmentally conscious clothing brand."

Jiang Feng said, such products, domestic businesses acceptance is relatively low, prefer to choose the traditional process of polyester, at present, similar to H&M, UNIQLO and other international garment enterprises are more interested.

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< p > "for example, in Japan," a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > waste clothes < /a > garbage disposal needs to be paid.

Jiang Feng said that the change of conceptual differences may be the stage for the industry to go through.

In the view of international companies, new technology can reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by about 45% compared with traditional technology, and it is a more environmentally friendly project.

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< p > for the difficulties faced by the recycling enterprises, Jiang Feng told reporters that there is no professional waste garment recycling enterprise in China. Because of the complexity of the fabric types, many of them are not judged by the naked eye and the hand feeling. The general recycling enterprises do not have such a high demand professional.

At present, they basically do not receive recycled clothing from general recycling enterprises, and tend to recycle leftover materials from garment factories. The materials are clear and the recycling efficiency is relatively high.

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< p > "after several years of expansion of production scale, production costs will also decline, and market competitiveness will naturally increase."

According to the plan, the first year of the operation of the beauty company will recover 35000 tons of waste materials and produce 25000 tons of fiber. In the fifth year, the amount of waste fabric recovery will reach 150 thousand tons, and 100 thousand tons of raw silk can be produced.

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