When it comes to the "break away" season, many people will support environmental protection and recycle their old clothes, but be careful to "do bad things with good intentions" and donate non-reusable clothes.
According to the Changchun News Agency, for every 10 pieces of clothing received by the organization, one or two of them cannot be recycled and will eventually be transported to the landfill at additional costs.
"Hong Kong 01" sorts out a number of items that cannot actually be recycled and the recycling guidelines to help you sort them beforehand, and increase the efficiency and opportunities for renewal of used clothes!
When donating clothes, the first thing to do is to clean all items to ensure hygiene, but there is no need to repack them.
Yang Yonglin, the project director of the Changchun Club, reminded the public to check again and again that no personal belongings or waste were left in the bags.
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Unrecyclable items 1: Excessively worn clothing and yellow collars are counted
Excessively worn clothing generally refers to clothing that is tattered, washed many times and severely faded, stains that cannot be washed off, and bleach stains.
However, the original "yellow neckline" caused by sweating will also be classified as excessively worn and will not be recycled even if the clothes remain functional.
Items that cannot be recycled 2: Uniforms, school uniforms, company dresses
In addition to school uniforms, a person will always have several team uniforms in his lifetime.
There is "Meeting T" in middle schools, "Orientation Camp T (Ocamp Tee)" in universities, and companies and organizations will order uniforms to unite and unite.
However, Yang Yonglin stated that "this type of clothing is more unique and difficult to reuse," so it will not be accepted, and even if it is received, it will be discarded.
Unrecyclable 3: Shoes with worn out soles
Don't take your iron shoes to recycle!
Yang Yonglin pointed out that many shoes can be clean on the surface, but the soles are abraded and even have obvious holes. They will be directly classified as "tattered" clothing, and institutions will not recycle or reuse them.
"Rotten Bull" is not "Rotten"
As for the pierced jeans commonly known as "rotten cow", they are not considered to be ragged clothes. They are different from shirts that have lost two important buttons. Yang said that "holes are style (style), which will not affect their functions and can be recycled." ".
Precautions for donating clothes: clean and leave no personal belongings or waste.
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"Upgrading and Rebuilding": T-shirts become environmentally friendly cutlery sets
Changchun News Agency pointed out that the public can look at whether some non-reusable clothing is suitable for "upgrading and recycling" before being sent to the landfill.
Yang Yonglin pointed out that sometimes just "use your brain" to give new value to old clothes, such as turning yellow shirts into eco-friendly cutlery sets.
Although the Changchun News Agency cannot prevent citizens from being "lazy to sort" and throw the recyclable and non-recyclable into the recycling bin in one go, the organization hopes that citizens can take one step further to reduce the additional cost of reclassification of the organization, so that the organization can transfer the source of investment to the public educate.
In general, 15% of the old clothes collected will be ragged, excessively worn, obvious stains, etc., which are regarded as non-reusable and need to be disposed of. At the same time, many clothes are new, even with price tags. Not cut off.
Changchun Society will package and disinfect the recyclable old clothes and export them to Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia.
They are traded or reused in the local second-hand market, and used clothes of lower quality will also be reused as ground cloth.
Provide warm clothing to single-parent families in custody to provide warmth
From time to time, local social welfare organizations will refer some cases of people who need to apply for used clothes to Changchun Club.
Yang Winglin pointed out that they will choose suitable clothes for the people concerned and donate them to them for free, so that they can get them through registered social workers, schools, or charitable organizations.
For example, she received an application from the Social Welfare Department. Because of financial constraints, she was unable to buy warm clothes for her three children in winter, so she sought help from the Changchun Society.
The organization has also provided some people in custody with financial difficulties or lack of visits by relatives and friends with thick winter clothes and warmth when they were released from prison.
There are also some educational institutions in the textile industry that apply to Changchun News Agency for used clothes for educational purposes. For example, the Clothing Industry Training Bureau opened a professional clothing modification course in 2017 and applied to Changchun News Agency for five types of clothes, including trousers and jeans. , For teachers and students to use in the classroom.
The epidemic affected the volume of recycling fell by 40%
Before the epidemic, Changchun News Agency received an average of 485 metric tons of recycled clothing each year, equivalent to nearly 33 double-decker buses. However, due to the epidemic, the recycling program was suspended from mid-August last year to March 31 this year.
In 2020, Changchun News Agency only received 272 metric tons of recycled clothing, a drop of about 40%.
As of September 30 this year, Changchun News Agency has received a total of 171 metric tons of used clothes.
The recycling program is re-launched, but Changchun News Agency only accepts placing clothes in recycling bins temporarily, and suspends the on-site recycling service or visitors to its offices and warehouses.
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