Old Clothes: Donation Channel Less Information Asymmetry, About 26 Million Tons A Year Wasted.

According to the latest data of China Resources Comprehensive Utilization Association (P), there are about 26 million tons of old a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > clothes "/a" each year, which are thrown into the trash cans, and the utilization rate is less than 1%. Most of the old clothes have not been re processed or processed harmlessly.

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< p > less donation channels and asymmetric information increase the difficulty of donation for the special requirements of old clothes.

Relying solely on donations to deal with old clothes is obviously not feasible.

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< p > in fact, old clothes are renewable resources and can be recycled.

Old clothes can be used as new materials besides the use of clothes themselves.

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< p > there is an expert's appeal that the relevant departments of the state should introduce strict rules and regulations for the trade of old clothes. The old clothes should be recovered, cleaned and sterilized by lawful and standardized organizations, and then allowed to be listed, so that the circulation of second-hand a target= "_blank" href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/" > clothing "/a" can be changed from underground to aboveground; old clothes should be reused to make use of technology, so that the old clothes can be recycled to maximize and form a complete industrial chain.

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< p > strong > old clothes should not be huge "consumer garbage", but should be used as a valuable asset to bring people business benefits through recycling.

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"P", "to tell you the truth, my old clothes are all 90% new. Now that I am in good condition, I have to add new clothes at any time.

I used to be a relative to the countryside, but in the past few years, almost no one wanted it, but the family could not put it down! "Liu Xianghong, who was shopping in a shopping mall in Shenyang, told reporters that she was very upset when the season changed.

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The distress of Ms. P is universal among the citizens.

Nowadays, with better living conditions, more and more clothes are available.

As a matter of fact, there are so many things that are often worn. The old clothes that are not worn occupy the place. Throwing away is a pity and pollute the environment. It is also a huge waste.

No one wants to sell, donate, and find no way out.

Faced with piles of old clothes, many people don't know what to do.

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< p > clothes are becoming faster and faster. How to deal with old clothes has become a headache for the public.

Seemingly simple old clothes, its "way out" is actually not simple.

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< p > < strong > donation channel is less, information asymmetry, about 26 million tons a year, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp" > old clothes < /a > waste, < /strong > /p >

< p > near the southern market of Shenyang, a cleaner working on the road surface told reporters that she had to deal with several bags of old clothes every day when she cleaned up the rubbish. Some of them looked very new and had a lot of grades. It was really a pity to throw them away.

Before some old clothes were cleaned and sterilized, they could be used as stuffing for stuffed toys, but now many enterprises use foam or non-woven fabrics as raw materials, so most of the old clothes go to landfill sites.

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< p > according to the latest data of China Resources Comprehensive Utilization Association, about 26 million tons of old clothes are thrown into the garbage cans every year in China, and the utilization rate is less than 1%. Most of the old clothes have not been reprocessed or processed harmlessly.

A large number of old clothes finally entered the landfill and combustion field, which not only caused the waste of resources, but also greatly increased the environmental burden, because most of these fabrics were made of chemical fibers, which had poor degradability and remained on the surface for thousands of years.

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< p > in fact, many people do not want to throw away their old clothes.

"Let's give it away, after all, it's old clothes. It was originally sold to the ragged ones, but I asked a couple of people that they didn't accept them. They said they had no place to go. They wanted to donate but they didn't know what the way was."

An interviewee expressed reluctantly to reporters.

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< p > reporters learned from one street office that there are few organizations to donate clothing activities in peacetime communities. Only when the higher authorities require organization, will the community initiate donations.

Moreover, there are no warehouses in the community, no large quantities of clothing can be stored, and only a small amount of donations can be received.

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< p > reporters also consulted civil affairs departments and charities. The answer was: because old clothes need sorting, cleaning, drying, disinfection, storage and other procedures, heavy workload and high cost, they often do not receive donations from old clothes, but receive donations from new clothes.

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< p > even though sometimes old clothes are collected, civil service departments and charities usually need cold clothing such as down garments, cotton padded clothes and coats, while summer clothes with higher elimination rate are often not in the range of recruitment.

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< p > according to the survey, the way to donate old clothes is mainly the donation of some government organizations, but there are more actions when disasters happen.

Even so, there are many problems.

It is understood that after the "5. 12" earthquake in Sichuan, Chengdu received the donation workstation and received nearly 3 million items of donated clothing from all over the country.

At that time, the cost of cleaning each old garment was 3 yuan, and if it was cleaned, it would cost more than ten million yuan.

Sichuan and Chengdu separately cleaned and cleaned more than 40 pieces of clothing and distributed them to the victims and other needy masses.

Sorting and cleaning these clothes takes six months.

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< p > the classification, cleaning and disinfection of old clothes need special funds.

And the receiving points also need special storage places. Warehouse fire, rainproof, moisture-proof and anti-theft should be devoted to special manpower.

It's too difficult to manage old clothes.

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< p > in addition, although some non-governmental organizations are trying to collect old clothes, there are not many people who know about them.

Less donation channels and asymmetric information increase the difficulty of donation for the special requirements of old clothes.

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< p > < strong > improving recycling technology and regulating second-hand pactions. There are huge business opportunities in the old clothes recycling market < /strong > /p >

< p > how to reuse waste clothes is a global problem. How can foreign countries break them? In fact, old clothes can be recycled.

In addition to being used as a garment, old clothes can also be used as new materials, such as interior materials for automobiles or building materials, stuffing of stuffed toys, raw materials for paper making, etc.

There are also some products that can be pformed into homogeneous materials, such as rag, mop, < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a > cushion, etc.

It is understood that as early as 1978, Switzerland set up specialized companies to effectively recycle and use old clothes.

Belgium has a population of only about 10000000, and the annual total amount of recycled clothing has reached 15 thousand tons.

The old clothing recycling activities in Japan were responded positively. 87% after the renovation, the United Nations refugee agency donated to the refugees, 3% of the old clothes were used for power generation, and 10% were processed into thermal insulation materials.

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Besides P, 8 years ago, a Japanese company developed a clothing fabric made of recycled clothes, called ECOCIRCLE, which is a renewable polyester fabric. This material is used in an old outdoor brand in the United States.

At present, a well-known sportswear brand in China has introduced this material and technology.

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Except for reprocessing and utilization, buying second-hand clothes is also popular in the European and American markets. For example, in many Belgian roadsides, old clothes recycling boxes are placed on the streets of Belgium, where residents can put old clothes in boxes and collect them by recycling companies.

Some of the old clothes selected are sold to second-hand stores in the recycling company, and some are pferred to professional factories for reuse.

Japan has a total of more than 2000 second-hand clothing stores, and has also established industry associations, with annual sales of over $200 million.

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< p > Yao Mu, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, told reporters that China's recycling of old clothes was 10 years later than that of foreign countries.

This leads to the "relatively backward technology of domestic waste a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "textile" /a "processing equipment and relatively simple equipment.

Fang Xiaodong, founder of China's old clothes net, told reporters.

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< p > at present, there are also old textile recycling companies in the domestic market, but most of them are recycled textile materials for production.

An old textile recycling worker said that the main reason why the company did not get involved in the recycling of old clothes was that the types of old clothes varied widely, and the technological level could not meet the requirements of their production.

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< p > in addition, lack of support from national policies is also an important factor in the difficulty of recycling old clothes.

In the latest management of renewable resources recycling, old clothes are still not included in the "renewable resources".

Therefore, the circulation of old clothes can not be carried out in a big way, because the circulation of old clothes is irregularities.

Industry and Commerce and other relevant departments have strict supervision and investigation on the listing of old clothes.

In Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries have mature second-hand clothing market, good quality old clothes to enter the secondary market is a priority, but in China, the second-hand clothing pactions are still banned.

"I think the most important thing to promote the recycling of old clothes is to legalize the old clothes trade."

Fang Xiaodong said.

It is understood that in recent years, many experts have appealed that the relevant departments of the state should introduce strict rules and regulations for the paction of old clothes. The old clothes should be recovered, cleaned and sterilized by lawful and standardized organizations, and then allowed to go public. The operation is similar to the "bazaar shop" and "second-hand clothing store", so that the circulation of second-hand clothing can be changed from underground to underground.

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< p > the reuse of old clothes has attracted the attention of the relevant departments of the state.

In December 2011, the NDRC "12th Five-Year" comprehensive utilization of resources guidance points clearly pointed out: "establish waste textile recycling system, carry out R & D of common key technologies of comprehensive utilization of waste textiles, expand the market of recycled textiles, and initially form an industrial chain for recycling, classification, processing and utilization."

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< p > November 2012, sponsored by the China Resources Comprehensive Utilization Association, and jointly with 28 enterprises, universities and research institutes and other units, the strategic alliance of technology innovation for the comprehensive utilization of waste textiles was established.

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"P > < strong > inspired by this, some parts of the country began to test old clothes for recycling.

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"P >" recently, Shanghai has begun to give families to some pilot communities dry and wet two kinds of trash cans, among which dry garbage cans can be recycled by waste textiles and plastic bottles.

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< p > there are many large residential areas in Guangzhou, such as ascent garden, Jin Bi garden, Huajing new town, Lijiang garden, Fuli millennium, Xinhong garden and so on. There are old clothes recycling boxes. Residents can throw old clothes that are not used in their homes into boxes like garbage dumps.

The environmental protection company regularly sends people to collect these old clothes. After processing, some of them are pported to Southeast Asian countries for two sales. Some are made into road base cloth, non-woven fabrics, colored cotton yarns and other recycled textile materials, and the last ones are raw materials such as cartons, petroleum catalysts and tissues.

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< p > some places have begun to buy old clothes. The old clothes used for recycling are priced in catties, regardless of their styles and fabrics. Generally, the price of each old catty is not more than 1 yuan.

The recycled old clothes will be sold to different manufacturers according to < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > cloth < /a > category, which will be broken and reused by manufacturers.

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< p > obviously, many people have noticed the commercial benefits of the old clothes recycling market.

Overall, however, due to the need to improve the recycling technology and equipment, there is no complete industrial chain in China at present.

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< p > "the development of the old clothes industry will take a long time. The establishment of law, the formation of people's ideas and the introduction of various standards require a long time to grope for."

Fang Xiaodong said, "the ideal situation of the old clothes industry is: in technology, old clothes can achieve the perfect docking of old and new. Second-hand clothes can be fully utilized after deep processing, including the production of recycled new fabrics, and the composition of old clothes can be maximized."

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< p > in Chinese innate thinking, it is difficult for many people to agree to "spend money on old clothes worn by others".

But in Britain, buying second-hand clothes is quietly becoming a popular way of consumption.

Advocates, regardless of age or identity, are not attracted by cheap prices, but come from the unique cultural interpretation of "second-hand clothes", so that "wearing second-hand clothes in the body" is a manifestation of life attitude and way of life.

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< p > entering the British antique clothing store is like entering a fashionable history of fashion. Every secondhand clothes is telling the unique fashion style of different times.

Today, with the "green wind" blowing, second-hand clothing has become a model student in the British fashion industry, and second-hand clothing shops have become the ideal coordinates of "no guilt" fashion consumption.

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< p > besides the "nostalgia" and "environmental protection" interpretation, the second-hand clothing in the British mind is also closely related to charity.

In the streets and lanes, a special store has become a unique landscape in Britain.

Usually their stores are small, and clothes dominated products are packed with small spaces.

They have their own special management mode. Most of the staff except the main leaders are volunteers.

Most of these shops are invested by charitable organizations and run in chain stores in cities and towns throughout the United Kingdom. These stores have a unified Name: Charity shop.

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< p > in a charity shop, the donated second-hand clothes need to undergo a rigorous "interview".

Volunteers will check every item of clothing and pick out those new and fashionable boutique. After careful steam ironing, they will be re labeled on the store and waiting for the new owner to bring it back to the beautiful wardrobe.

Those clothes that were "lost" during the interview were not linked to the store price tag, but they were also sources of income for charity shops.

After they were defeated, they were put into green plastic bags by volunteers, sold to the specialized recycling clothing companies by weight, and then pported to a larger garment fabric pfer station, which was reclassified. The quality and style of the fine clothes were distributed to the developing countries by weight, and the new journey began.

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