"If all the waste textiles in China are recycled, the chemical fiber and natural fiber that can be supplied in the year will be equivalent to 24 million tons of crude oil saved, which is more than half of the annual oil output of Daqing oilfield." Recently, the above measurement data released by China Textile Industry Federation is quite attracting attention.

However, there are various signs that behind the huge waste of waste clothing is the embarrassing situation that Chinese textile industry has been plagued by the shortage of raw materials in recent years. It is understood that as a big country of fiber consumption, China's annual production and consumption links produce nearly 20 million tons of waste textiles, and the utilization rate is about 10%, while the import of textile raw materials is as high as 65%.

　　 Invisible giant Waste

27, Jiyang Tiancheng renewable resources recycling company. More than a dozen women workers were sorting out the old clothes that were transported from all over the place in a spacious room. The clothes with different fabrics and colors were packed into different plastic boxes for decomposition.

"First, through artificial screening, determine the use of different fabrics and colors of old clothes. For example, a better color can be exported to foreign countries as a garment, and a poor color can be extracted through fiber decomposing machine (commonly known as the "flower machine"), extraction of acrylic, polyester, spandex and other materials in the textile fibers, and ultimately can be sold to textile factories and chemical plants, respectively, used to make public road felt, greenhouse quilts and even extremely high oil additives. Gao Shiming, manager of Jiyang Tiancheng renewable resources recycling company, introduced.

During the interview, the workers encountered a lot of waste. Old clothes Shipped back to the company. Gao Shiming said that on average, the company could receive about 10 tons of waste textiles on a daily basis, usually at a price of 600 yuan per ton, which was charged to the recycling vendors. In his words, the vendors around had saved enough 5 tons of old clothes. He would send someone to take the money with him immediately after a call.

Even so, because the fixed recycling channels are limited, and the community has not equipped with specialized waste clothes recycling bins, the company has been in a state of "not enough to eat", and it is urgent to expand the scope of recycling.

On the other hand, it is a recycling company that is "not enough to eat", but it is also an old family with many old clothes to deal with. It is understood that China's annual recovery of fiber less than 10% of raw materials, only in Shanghai and Guangzhou have some old clothes recycling attempt, waste textiles have become the wrong location of resources are wasted.

According to data estimates, if the average life expectancy of a garment is 3 to 4 years, our country will abandon 3 to 5 pieces of old clothes on average on the basis of 5 to 10 new pieces of clothing each year. By the end of 12th Five-Year, the total volume of waste textiles will reach 1 billion tons, of which 70 million tons of chemical fiber and 30 million tons of natural fibers. If it can not be reused, it is not only a threat to the environment, but also a huge waste of invisibility.

　　 Textile enterprises "Don't buy it."

"If all the waste textiles are recycled, the chemical fiber and natural fiber provided annually will be equivalent to saving nearly 1/3 of the cotton planting area." On the 27 day, Tang Yanju, head of waste textiles Specialized Committee of China Recycling Resource Recycling Association, said that a ton of old clothes could be converted into one ton of colored cotton yarn or directly generated nearly one ton of non-woven fabrics after recycling.

According to the existing technology level, the average power consumption of spinning one ton of cotton yarn is about 2200 kwh, which does not include the energy, chemical raw materials and sewage treatment investment in dozens of production processes such as degreasing, dyeing, sizing, rinsing, drying and so on. If the industry chain upstream cotton planting links involved in pesticides, irrigation and so on, will undoubtedly be a huge expense.