Follow the recycling of waste textiles to see the "seventy -two changes" of the old clothes

Zhejiang News Client reporter Wang Yiqun

An old clothes recycling station in Hangzhou Shopping Mall. Interviewee confidence

The summer is here, how to deal with the seasonal clothes in the wardrobe has become the "little trouble" of some citizens. It's a pity to throw it directly; I want to give it up, and I don't know who to give it -these troubles are finally summarized into a small data. According to statistics, there are about 20 million tons of waste textiles in my country each year.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Utilization of Waste Textiles", and proposed that by 2025, China's waste textile circulation system will be initially established, and the capacity of cycle utilization capacity will be greatly improved. The use of waste textiles reached 25%.

In accordance with the development trend of cyclic use, the online recycling sites and online recycling platforms of the old clothes gradually entered people's vision. How is old clothes recycling? Where did you go after recycling? Recently, through one of the largest Internet old clothes recycling platforms in Zhejiang- "White Whale", I opened a journey to track the recycling of old clothes.

One -click ordering courier door

Small prize free shipping home

After organizing the wardrobe, I eliminated 8 old clothes -1 red down jacket, 3 sweaters, and 4 white T -shirts.

Open Alipay, search for "old clothing recycling", click on the top "White Whale Old Clothing" applet, fill in information such as pickup address, clothes weight and other information in turn, and I make an appointment for the time for the courier to collect clothes. The mini -program shows that the minimum weight requirements for recycling old clothes are 5 kg, but the new and old level, size, thin thickness, etc. are not limited. The recycling platform does not pay me, but it still provides small prizes such as soap and racks. While I place the order successfully, I promptly free shipping home.

"Hello, take clothes." More than an hour later, the younger brother SF Express knocked on my house. After he took over the package, the screen displayed: 6.3 kg.

"Do I pay the courier fee? Can these clothes be recovered?" I asked one after another.

"No need, to pay." As the brother said, he opened the package and looked at it: "No problem." The entire collection process was almost two minutes, which was very convenient. My brother told me that since last year, the number of orders for recycling old clothes increased significantly. Sometimes he could pick up five or six orders a day.

Where did these old clothes express? The income address on the courier parts reads: Old clothing sorting warehouse in Xiawan Village, Puyang Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou.

After the package was sent out, I contacted Fang Xiaodong, the person in charge of Hangzhou Kenfei Information Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of the "White Whale" platform. He told me on the phone that the address on the courier is the "White Whale" platform in Hangzhou warehouse, which can be reached within two days.

"There are more and more people who choose to recover old clothes." Fang Xiaodong told me that "White Whale" generally picks up 20,000 orders every day in Hangzhou, and sometimes it can exceed 30,000 orders. Based on the current average parcel, it is estimated that at least 60,000 tons of old clothes can be recovered in a conservative estimate.

Quality supervisors sorted old clothes in the warehouse. Photo by Wang Yiqun, a reporter from Zhejiang News Client Wang Yiqun

Can be recycled by clothes and shoes

Sort the finer, the more valuable

"You received your parcel, come to the warehouse." Two days later, I received a call from Fang Xiaodong. Following the navigation, I departed from the city of Hangzhou and drove to Xiawan Village, Xiaoshan District, Xiaoshan District.

At the door of the warehouse, the white "Iveco" and the large and small express vehicles drove in. Every day, waste textiles from all over Hangzhou are transported to this warehouse of more than 9,000 square meters.

"Many people think that they cannot be recycled, we can all accept it, including shoes, bags, plush toys, sheets cover, etc." Li Liying, the person in charge of the warehouse, revealed that these waste textiles are actually treasures: new clothing, in the warehouse, in the warehouse, in the warehouse, in the warehouse, in the warehouse, in the warehouse Disinfection of donations after disinfection; other damage, stains, etc. Those who cannot be used again can enter the use of regenerative resources.

The workers were busy disassembling the package, and the clothes of the mountains were piled up in the warehouse. The 8 clothes I had eliminated before were also among them. Quality supervisor Chen Li decided to take me to experience a process of sorting clothes.

We picked up our clothes and checked from the inside out. In particular, we must carefully observe whether the cuffs, collars, etc. are not damaged. "We have to pick out at least 90 % of the clothes." Chen Li said.

In the donation area, several clothes disinfection processing machines are through ozone and ultraviolet rays, while disinfection of more than 200 clothes. After 20 minutes, the clothes were "out of position", waiting for packing here. "We will unite charities, etc. to donate these clothes to their areas where they support," said Li Liying, who was on the side.

After sorting the old clothes according to the new and old level, sort them again according to the material. Taking my clothes as an example, Li Liying talked about the door: "Your 4 T -shirts, the polyester is slippery, and the delicate feel is cotton. The other 3 sweaters have 2 pieces. It is wool. The remaining down jackets will also disassemble the classification. "She said that these different types of clothes have different destinations. After the achievement of accurate classification, the processing process can be guaranteed smoothly, and the high value of waste textiles can be achieved. Essence

"The more detailed the division, the higher the utilization rate, the more valuable it is." Li Liying said.

Burning stick made of cotton waste spinning. Interviewee confidence

Burning stick sound insulation cotton insulation cotton

Old clothes become waste into treasure

"Do you want to know what your clothes are in the end? Come with me." With my split cotton T -shirts, Li Liying and I came to the processing workshop a few kilometers away. I saw a row of pipes similar to the water outlet in the equipment, which was spit out a black short rod about 5 cm in length and about 2 cm in diameter. Stretching and touching it, it was relatively soft.

"This is our latest product, called a burning stick." Li Liying opened a show to me: "You look at the materials inside carefully, and you can also see thick cloth. They are made of cotton waste spinning."

The first process of making a burning stick is crushing. The workers threw a pile of clothes in my cotton T -shirt into the crusher. With the sound of "bombardment", the clothes were split -rotated by high -speed rotating gears. This was rough, and then they had to make a similar process of fine breaks. In the end, cotton fabrics of various colors were mixed together, and workers were transported in batches to the molding machine in batches.

"The most important thing is to compress the molding. After completing this step, the waste spinning really becomes waste." Li Liying pointed at a four -five -meter -high molding machine beside him. I picked up the iron pupa and shoved the fragmented cloth to the conveyor belt in front of the workers like a shovel, and finally entered the molding machine. On the other side, a worker continuously adds auxiliary materials such as wood chips to the machine to improve the combustion efficiency of the combustion rod. After high temperature compression in the device, after ten seconds, the original colorful waste spinning turned into a black combustion stick, which "spit" from the exit below.

"These cotton raw materials have high heat. The burning sticks produced are mainly sold to thermal power plants." Li Liying said that the price of the combustion stick per ton is about 400 yuan, which is half lower than the price of ordinary coal.

"In addition to making a combustion stick, we can all have the remaining clothes." Li Liying told me that my blended sweater can be processed into raw materials for carpets and labor insurance gloves; polyester T -shirts can be re -processed into polyester fibers and systems. Filling materials are used for the home industry; after the sweater is refined through high temperature, the raw materials of wool can be used in the field of industrial agriculture. The down jackets can be used recycled by high temperature disinfection after removal. Hangzhou Kenfei Information Technology Co., Ltd. has cooperated with a number of companies to have a relatively complete recycling resource processing model.

In addition to clothes, I also see a lot of recycled shoes and bags in the workshop, which are also useful. For example, the rubber soles can be made into a reducer on the road; waste textiles with complex components can also be treated by reassembling crushing, pine, thermal machinery, etc., and eventually become building materials such as sound insulation cotton, insulation cotton, and plate. "Waste clothes are not sold after the processing of fragmented clothing, but after processing into industrial cotton, the selling price is nearly 10,000 yuan per ton." Li Liying said.

In Li Liying's view, although the recycling and renewable use of waste textiles has gradually entered the right track, it is still far away. "The ingredients of clothes are becoming more and more complicated. Next, we must continue to improve technology, improve sorting efficiency, and produce products with higher added value."

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