Can Recycling Of Waste Textiles Become A New Industry?

Reporters from the recently held "China Textile" clothing "The annual industrial output value of China's textile industry has reached 5 trillion yuan, and the total textile processing volume has exceeded 40 million tons, accounting for more than 50% of the world's total." But China's textile waste is very serious. If we can establish a standardized market and smooth circulation links and reuse the old textile products, we can make the waste resources regenerate value. circular economy To gain future development advantages.

　 Can recycling of waste textiles become a new industry?

Textile raw materials consume a lot, and waste textiles bring more environmental pressure. However, there is no formed recycling system in China.

　　 Textile industry It is a traditional advantageous industry in China. At present, the total output value of textile industry has exceeded 5 trillion mark, and the growth rate of 10% ~ 20% has always been maintained for 20 years. Wei Jianguo, deputy director and Secretary General of the China International Economic Exchange Center, and former Vice Minister of Commerce, said: "we have statistics, and now the world's 400 largest commodity and export volume of commodities, China occupies 222, of which 78 of textiles."

China is a big country with fiber processing and consumption. Data show that in 2010, 41 million 300 thousand tons of fiber processing and about 4000000 tons of regenerated fiber were produced in China, of which 28 billion 500 million of clothing was produced annually. By 2015, the total fiber processing may reach 51 million 500 thousand tons.

The textile industry is an industry with high resource dependence and high environmental sensitivity. For the Chinese textile industry, which is more than 40 million tons per year and accounts for 10% of the global fiber production, the consumption of non renewable resources is very large. In China, the consumption of raw materials such as cotton, wool and silk wool is also very large every year. Most of the textiles will be disposed of in the next one or two years and bring enormous environmental pressure.

Therefore, if the industry and enterprises can recycle and recycle a large amount of textile waste produced annually in the textile and garment industry, it can be regarded as a new way to solve the energy shortage.

In the developed countries, the recycling of waste textiles has developed into an industry with less investment and significant benefits, which has alleviated the shortage of resources in the textile industry and reduced the pollution caused by the environment. At present, the recycling of foreign textile materials has reached about 17%, and China basically has no system of textile material recycling mode. Huo Enquan, deputy director of the international cooperation center of the national development and Reform Commission, said.

　 "Carbon tariffs" push the industry green transformation

Every year or 4 billion 100 million garments are discarded in China, and the product carbon logo is implemented. The lower carbon products are more competitive.

Globally, the green cycle and low carbon development have become the trend. "Now many international trade associations begin to implement carbon labeling of their products. For example, when making garments, they want to mark carbon emissions in the whole production chain on the final clothing products. This includes energy consumption in the links of production, processing, transportation and marketing, and even the consumption of chemical fertilizer used for planting cotton. The lower carbon products are more competitive. He Jiankun, deputy director of the national climate change expert committee and President of the low carbon Economy Research Institute of Tsinghua University, said.

He Jiankun said that some developed countries are now planning to impose carbon tariffs, and export textile products will levy tariffs on the carbon dioxide emitted from the entire production chain. Therefore, the tax rate of the textile industry will increase by 3% to 5%, which will have a relatively large impact on low value-added export enterprises.

In addition, the green transformation of textile and garment industry is also a requirement for energy conservation and emission reduction. The resources of textile and garment industry come from the storage and consumption of nature, for example, the main resource of chemical fiber industry comes from oil. Therefore, if the chemical fiber industry carries out energy conservation and emission reduction, the oil energy used by industrial enterprises will also be reduced every year. "For cotton textile industry, reducing consumption of cotton and other plant resources is equivalent to reducing land cultivation and labor costs." Shi Yinhuan, executive vice president of the National Federation of textile and garment industry, and chairman of Polytron Technologies Inc, the chairman of Huayin joint Polytron Technologies Inc. {page_break}

Shi Yinhuan has counted such an account. According to the current 1 billion 370 million population in China, if the average annual discarded 3 garments per person, then 4 billion 100 million clothes will be discarded every year in China. "Such a huge amount of data shows that waste textiles waste a lot, which should be highly valued by textile and garment enterprises, relevant state departments and trade associations. It is hoped that all enterprises in the industry can take action to achieve the goal of green recycling, energy saving and environmental protection. Shi Yinhuan said.

　 How to form a complete recycling system?

When developing fabrics, we must consider the problem of clothing recycling; technical support is the foundation, and fiscal and tax policies should be guided.

In the 12th Five-Year plan of the national textile industry, the utilization of renewable resources in textile and garment industry has already set a clear goal. However, many textile and garment enterprises still do not consider the waste of resources and environmental pressure caused by mass production and sales of clothing. For recycling of waste textiles, there is no set of practical solutions and specific action rules. What is needed to form a complete recycling system?

First of all, technical support is the foundation of the green cycle of textile and garment industry, and the textile and garment industry should give full play to the value of recycling. The key lies in fabric development. The scientific composition of fabrics and recycled tissue fibers are important factors determining the value of recycling. Therefore, in the development of fabrics, we should first consider the problem of clothing recycling. For example, we should adjust the composition and structure of fabric and use regeneration technology scientifically. At the same time, we should strengthen research and development of plant fiber, tap various resources, tackle key problems in science and technology, and reduce costs by making full use of ecological natural resources.

"If the electronic information system and the use of material information, process information, quality information, social service information, information on recovery years are placed in clothing, then every garment has an ID card and a green card. Such a combination of traditional clothing industry and electronic technology can make the garment industry realize the green circular intelligence and modernization. Shi Huanyin said.

However, the most important thing for enterprises to consider is how to get maximum economic benefits. If the cost of technological tackling is far greater than that of revenue, enterprises will lose the enthusiasm to go green. Therefore, the second step for the industry to form a recycling system is to get support from the state fiscal and taxation policies, so that the industry and enterprises can gradually lead to a virtuous circle.

Su Ming, deputy director of the Financial Science Research Institute of the Ministry of finance, said that the state fiscal and taxation policy should give necessary support to the development of the textile and garment circular economy, including support for technological development, production process and sales process.

Thirdly, to realize the green cycle of the textile and garment industry, it is important to recycle the waste clothes. The concept of green circular development of textile and garment industry should be run through every link, from the development of textile resources to the manufacture of fabrics, from the printing and dyeing links to the design and production process of clothing, from marketing to old clothing recycling, recycling and so on. "Only by making every link green, can the textile and garment industry become a model of the green industry." Shi Yinhuan said.

However, "from the perspective of the green cycle of enterprises and society, it is technically and economically difficult to recycle the entire discarded garment development environment." Wang Yi, a staff member of Huayin Joint Technology Co., Ltd. In view of this, Huayin joint technology has established the reverse process and standard of green supply chain, which can provide solutions to build recycling channels, facilities and network systems, and improve the R & D capability of textile products such as regenerated fibers through planning.