Bosideng Wardrobe: 100 Billion Industrial Chain Waste Textiles To Be Reborn

In recent years, the frequency of clothing renewal and consumption has been increasing, and the number of old textiles such as old clothes is growing faster and faster.

A set of survey data shows that China produces about 26 million tons of waste textiles every year in the production and consumption links, and the utilization rate is less than 14%.

Recycled paper produced by recycled newspapers and printed products has been gradually recognized in daily life.

Then, what are the ways to turn waste into treasure and turn rotten into magic in the face of piles of waste textiles around us?

1, circular economy must have strong technical support.

"It is estimated that by the end of 12th Five-Year, the total volume of waste textiles in China has exceeded 1 billion tons, and the comprehensive utilization of waste textiles is facing enormous pressure.

At present, the recycling and reuse of waste textiles is an important starting point for the textile industry to develop circular economy and create ecological civilization.

At present, the clothing market in China is in a state of oversupply. Brand manufacturers are constantly increasing output and manufacturing products, and many products are backlog.

And channel business links.

At the same time, the frequency of clothing purchased by consumers is far greater than that of digestion wardrobe clothing, resulting in an increasing number of clothing in wardrobes, resulting in an objective waste of resources.

Bosideng group quality management director said.

Faced with these objective waste of resources, Bosideng, as a leading brand in the industry and a responsible enterprise in the global textile supply chain, has been the first to launch the "closet plan" in the industry since 2010.

Before the plan was launched, Bosideng conducted research and demonstration from three aspects: technical feasibility, profitability and market feasibility.

Through actively participating in the "zero abandonment of old clothes" launched by the textile industry, the clothing clothing recycling activities of Chinese brand clothing enterprises, the research on the technology of recycling, decomposing and reusing the down and down garments is carried out. The recycled garments are classified, decomposed and reprocessed, which are used to manufacture adsorbent materials, cleaning supplies, industrial weaving fabrics and automobile insulation materials.

At present, Bosideng "closet" plan recycling is limited to single category of down jacket.

Because the raw material composition of down eider is more than that of other clothing categories, the material is mainly eiderdown, polyester fiber, plastic or metal zipper head and fur, which is relatively simple for recycling process, reducing the difficulty of commercial development and reuse in later stage.

The core concept of the "wardrobe plan" is recycling economy and recycling. The main research projects are in the first phase of the pilot test, and the raw materials are not large, mainly from the "old clothes zero abandonment" plan.

In the late two stage, the demand for raw materials for the pilot plant will increase, and the resources recovery and reuse of the waste garments will be gradually increased through social welfare, community activities and coupons replacement.

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Bosideng group quality management head specially stressed that the recycling of waste down clothing is not the "inner cycle" of the down jacket industry chain, but the innovation practice under the social circular economy system.

According to the research objectives and business plan of the group, the raw materials recovered will not directly enter the garment manufacturing and reproduction, but will be utilized through physical dismantling, chemical degradation and trade resale.

Taking down raw materials as an example, the recovered feather filling material can be made into adsorption material and filler for automobile inner panel. After chemical decomposition, the fabric is converted into regenerated polyester raw material, and its purity is comparable to that of raw polyester raw material, and raw materials are recycled into the recyclable system to make new regenerated products.

Bosideng's "closet" plan has promoted the industrial ecology of the cleaning and utilization of waste clothes and industrial operation, and promoted the harmonious unification of social responsibility, enterprise strategy and industrial green development.

Unlike Bosideng, which specializes in the reprocessing of down products, Pan Jianxin, chairman of Guangde Tian Yun new technology Limited by Share Ltd, is looking for "coarse grains" for textile recycling.

He made a new product for making use of the products of leftover clothing, textile and garment processing, and fiber products. "There is another set of products": "we have no high requirements for the recycling of waste textiles, and the recovered materials are processed through a series of physical methods such as tearing and so on, which are made into rough fabrics by rough processing and made into end products according to market demand."

Pan Jianxin told the China textile daily reporter, "there is another way to deal with recycling raw materials by chemical method. However, this method may cause two pollution. At the same time, the demand for recycling raw materials is relatively high.

Because the most fundamental starting point of recycling is environmental protection, we still insist on using physical methods to decompose raw materials.

2, the market system and standards need to be improved.

In order to better promote waste

The best way to find and excavate waste textiles is to recycle and reuse.

In this process, the enterprise has gone through many difficulties and exploration process.

Pan Jianxin began to recycle and reuse waste textiles in 2003.

"In this field, everyone is" crossing the river by feeling the stones ", and finding the direction of product development is a problem we have been thinking about.

How to open the market through product innovation, not only for large enterprises, but also for the general public, let the public know more and take the initiative to consume recyclable products, is our most concern.

"China has banned private waste clothes trading, and the public is also worried about the social problems such as" black cotton "and so on.

The way to open up, cultivate and standardize the industrial chain of old clothes recycling is a pressing problem at present. It needs strong support from the government and trade associations, which involves many aspects such as the environmental protection of the circular economy, the realization of commercial value, the objective evaluation of public opinion, and so on.

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Bosideng head said, "we are faced with two key problems, namely, key technological breakthroughs and industrial ecological chain construction.

First, we should strike a balance between economic benefits and social benefits.

Industrial policy preferences are not covered. VAT Deduction Policy is difficult to implement in the field of waste products recycling.

The cost of reprocessing old clothes is too high.

The production cost of polyester staple produced by downstream enterprises is higher than that of virgin polyester.

Two, the industrial chain should be ecological.

Due to the limited total recovery, the lack of continuous supply of main raw materials sources has limited the industrialization application process.

Industrial development needs to be driven positively. Only when the quantity of recycling increases and keeps stable, can the supply chain of regenerated products achieve commercial profits and form a virtuous circle development.

Starting from the "Wardrobe" plan in 2010, Bosideng actively joined the Jiangnan University and Tianjin University of Technology to form a scientific and technological tackling team to promote the development of the technology of dismantling down garments and the development of production processes.

In addition, Jiangnan University was established in cooperation with Suzhou.

Installation and recovery engineering technology center, to carry out research on the recovery, decomposition and reuse of down garments.

At present, the research and development of down garment physical dismantling and fabric chemical degradation have been completed.

In June 14, 2014, Bosideng, the 12 main stores in Beijing, participated in the "old clothes zero abandonment - the old clothing recycling activities of Chinese brand clothing enterprises" sponsored by the China Textile Industry Federation and the China ecological civilization research and Promotion Association. Through the brand enterprises' independent recycling of old clothes, the first time the rational use of industrial resources was combined with social public welfare to promote the new green way of industrial development.

Bosideng executives believe that in the long run, the recycling of old clothes is a 100 billion level industrial chain in China, but it is still in the initial stage, and the industry norms need to be improved. The establishment of old clothes recycling and supervision system needs to be strengthened, and the behavior of enterprises needs further standardization.

At the same time, we should promote the establishment of collaborative innovation platform for waste textiles technology, and promote the docking of industry, University and Research Institute, and strive to build an ecological chain.

We should improve the standard and system of waste textiles, formulate preferential policies from the aspects of capital and taxation, support the leading industry innovation, explore new construction of circular economy, take the road of innovation, take the road of green manufacturing, and truly achieve sustainable development.