Do you know? For every 1kg of old textile recycled, it can reduce carbon emissions by 3.6kg, save 6000L of water, reduce 0.3kg of fertilizer, and 0.2kg of pesticide use.
According to industry data, on average, 3-5 pieces of clothing are discarded on the mainland for every 10 new clothes bought.
Is there really so much? Of course, here is not to buy 10 pieces, just lose 3 to 5 of them, more people's choice is to leave old clothes in the closet as home clothes.
But in the end, put it away, the wardrobe was full, and it was all packed and lost at one time. According to statistics, 26 million to 28 million tons of clothes are discarded every year, what does this mean?
This means that the clothes we don't want every year can be collected to fill a building! What a waste!
So, what about these old clothes?
1. Incineration treatment
This method is not advisable, and incineration will produce dioxins! It enters the air as it burns, then inhales into the human body, falls on the surface of the skin, and even passes through the biological cycle and eats into the stomach.
This can cause skin diseases, impaired immune function, teratogenic carcinogenic damage to the human body, because of its serious harm, the World Health Organization in 1997 listed it as a First Class carcinogen.
2. Landfill treatment
This method is relatively mild, after all, the main textile of clothing is cotton, which can be processed in a natural way that degrades.
But the problem is that it takes 4 years for a piece of clothing to start degrading by the land. Moreover, because many clothes are now made, a large number of artificial materials are added, which will also cause environmental pollution!
3. Internet recycling
Now Internet recycling will recycle some of the clothes that have been selected and disinfected, and will be sold to Africa, and the remaining clothes that cannot be worn will be made into industrial cloth or broken and reused in the production of textiles. The recycling of old clothes, there is basically no technical problem, more than 90% of old clothes, can be recycled.
In addition to the above methods, do you know how to deal with unwanted clothes?