Thousands of old clothes thrown away by Shanghai residents each year amount to 100,000 tons. At present, waste recycling bins have been placed in more than 2,000 districts in the city. Many residents have been accustomed to picking up a bag of unused clothes and putting them in a recycling box before going out. It is understood that apart from the reasonable disposal of a few waste clothes, a considerable portion of them have been burned or landfilled, putting tremendous pressure on the environment. The relevant departments indicated that by the end of this year, used clothing recycling bins will be promoted to 3,000 districts in the city.

According to the different fabrics, old and new styles, the waste clothing has its own place to go into the waste clothing warehouse of Yuyuan Industrial Co., Ltd. located in Jiasong Middle Road, Qingpu District. It can be described as “Yishan clothing sea”. Cotton fabrics, denim clothing, sweaters, etc. It was categorized and placed in a warehouse of nearly 2,000 square meters. More than a dozen staff members were sorting clothes in the bow.

Li Junlong, General Manager of Yuanyuan Co., Ltd., told reporters that two trucks set off from the warehouse every day and went to various residential communities to recycle used clothes. On average, each vehicle had to run on twenty or thirty cells a day. After returning, these clothes need to be weighed first. , and register the number, then manually sort by the staff.

The quality of these used clothes is uneven, and the fabrics are all sorts of strange things. The staff first picks out winter clothes such as cotton quilts, down coats, coats, etc. with better quality, better style, and higher wear value. Return to the Charity Party or donate directly to people in economically backward areas such as Guangxi, Anhui, and Qinghai who are in difficult circumstances.

"This dress can be worn completely. It's a pity to throw it away." Li Junlong picks up a long white down coat on the ground. She only sees this dress is clean and flat, even if the collar can not see the slightest stain, but similar Winter clothes piled up hundreds at the warehouse.

Some of the detachable sweaters were sterilized and sent to community love weaving agencies. The loving mothers in the community removed the yarns, and then knitted their sweaters with the help of hopeful pupils and those in need. At present, the Love Weaving Co., Ltd. has expanded into 6 communities in the city. In the past three years, more than 10 tons of clothes have been provided to temples in the Yushu area of ​​Qinghai Province. A considerable number of them are woven by love mothers.

“Inhabitants in the African region are more interested in summer clothing.” Yang Yuhong, chairman of the source company, told reporters that after finishing and disinfecting some of the new summer clothes that were in good condition, they were shipped directly to Africa. The average price was 5,000 yuan per ton. About 6,000 summer clothes, equivalent to one dollar less than the average, cheap.

For worn and worn-out garments that lose valuable value, the sorted aunts will be sorted by hair, cotton, chemical fiber, and blended fabrics one by one, and then sold to Shandong and Jiangsu wool textile companies, and processed into wool and cotton textile fabrics through Kaisong disposal recycling. “This map of Guilin landscape is made of recycled woollen raw materials that are woven by computer.” Yang Xiaohong presented a reporter with a “Guilin landscape map” that is about one meter long and about 50 centimeters wide. In his office, he was covered with various kinds of waste clothes and processed and refined fabrics. These fabrics were welcomed by local manufacturers and were exported to Europe, Japan, and South America.

In addition, shoe and bag items were sold to enterprises in Zhejiang Huzhou Rubber and Leather Recycling Resources, which were made into recycled raw materials, and some of the jeans with valuable value were converted into bags and crafts; partially damaged clothing was manually cut into pieces and used as “panda”. The clothing collection box material or provided as a filler.

A day to receive 25 "giant pandas" for recycling significant environmental effects It is understood that there are a total of two 2 tons of large trucks and a mobile minibus responsible for collecting clothes, each truck is responsible for the receipt and transportation of 600 boxes ,Receive 25 to 30 cases of clothing every day.

“The car departs from Qingpu at 8am every morning and arrives in the urban area after about an hour. Then it runs in a community. It is calculated that a panda can be filled with 80kg and 25 pandas can fill a truck.” Li Junlong told reporters that In fact, according to the average number of resident's clothes, the area is divided into a, b and c. The a file is accepted once a week, and the file every half a month. Received once, and the lowest frequency of c file is guaranteed once a month.

Sometimes when the season changes, the giant pandas are often filled up. Residents who do not have recycling points often call to receive income. On average, more than one hundred residents can receive calls each month. At this time, the minivan served as a mobile force, receiving up to 305 kilograms of old clothes in a resident's home.

In this process, joke often arises. Once, a resident calls Yang Xihong and says that he is about to move. Ten bags of clothes at home are nowhere to be placed. Yang Xiaohong imagines the size of ordinary plastic bags and lets Li Junlong open. His own private car to collect, to the scene two dumbfounded, turned out to be 10 snakeskin bags of clothes! The car simply can not be installed, so they can only call the minivan "help".

It is understood that in 2011, Yuanyuan Company placed 480 giant pandas in Shanghai and received a total of 113 tons of waste clothing. Last year, 980 giant pandas received a total of 305 tons of used clothing, and from January to May this year, they collected various types of used clothing. 302 tons of used clothing, almost the total amount collected last year.

The annual output of 2.5 kg of wool for an adult sheep needs to be cultivated with 5 mu of grassland. Last year, 305 tons of waste clothes recovered from the source had about 85 tons of wool fibers. After calculation, 34,000 sheep were needed to provide raw materials. These sheep need 17 Million acres of grassland feed supply. Similarly, the use of 1 kilogram of cotton fiber waste textiles is equivalent to saving 8.33 square meters of cultivated land, reducing the use of 0.3 kilograms of chemical fertilizers and 0.2 kilograms of pesticides, and saving 6,000 liters of water.

Coverage is related to the profit and loss The government plans to deploy in 3,000 communities at the end of the year. It is understood that the current monthly operating expenses of Liyuan Company are not the salaries of Li and Yang. They need about RMB 100,000, and the income is probably maintained at RMB 90,000. At a loss. However, Yang Haohong also said that if the future "Giant Panda" can enter 2000 communities, then the company can basically turn a profit. “As of the end of May, our company has placed a total of 1295 "grand giant panda" boxes, covering about 10% of the city's residential areas." Yang Xiaohong said that at present, the coverage rate is still low, and the waste thrown out by the people in Shanghai every year Up to 100,000 tons of clothing, according to the statistics of 305 tons last year, accounted for only three-thousandths of the daily waste of Shanghai residents.

Relevant person in charge of the Municipal Waste Management Office told the reporter that in the entire community recycling system, three companies including Yuyuan and Wanrong participated in the recycling of used clothes, covering more than 2,000 communities, accounting for about 13% of the city's 1.5 communities. Last year, the old waste fabrics collected through various channels in residential areas and government departments accounted for about 2% of the city's waste classification.

At present, the relevant departments intend to further promote the recycling of used clothing in residential areas. By the end of this year, it plans to place waste recycling bins in more than 3,000 waste sorting pilots in the city. It is understood that the implementation of the fifth round of the three-year environmental protection action plan in Shanghai has been made clear. By the end of 2014, waste clothing recycling bins will be fully settled in the city's 12,000 residential property management areas.

"Because of different companies, each company has a variety of recycle bins. It is difficult to standardize the collection and transportation system of used clothes, and there are problems in the distribution and receipt and transportation of time. Next, we will regulate the operation as a pilot area. Unify the size of the container and improve the layout of waste collection bins to make this system more rational,” said the responsible person.