How to turn textile waste into a renewable resource (Flowering Machine)

As people's living standards improve, the number of consumer goods such as clothing and home textiles is also increasing. As a world-renowned textile country, China consumes an astonishing amount of textile fibers every year, but these textiles will become waste textiles in a few years. According to data from the China National Textile and Apparel Council, China currently produces more than 20 million tons of waste textiles every year. Most of the waste clothes in our lives are in a state of "it's a pity to throw them away, but they are not worn", resulting in a huge waste of resources. According to statistics, 99% of waste textiles can be recycled, while our comprehensive utilization rate of waste textiles is only about 15%. How to deal with old clothes is not only a puzzle for consumers, but also a problem for manufacturers. The traditional recycling methods for waste textiles are mainly incineration and landfill. However, the decomposition process of synthetic fibers such as polyester, acrylic, and polypropylene is very slow. Burying them in the soil not only harms the growth of plants, but also wastes materials. It is suitable for waste textiles that cannot be recycled, using chemical fibers with high calorific value as heat, and generating heat through incineration, but toxic substances will be released during the incineration process, causing environmental pollution. At present, there are two recycling technologies for waste textiles: chemical degradation and physical methods. Chemical degradation recycling is a method that can achieve material recycling. It depolymerizes the polymers in waste textiles at high temperature to obtain monomers or oligomers, and then uses these monomers to re-manufacture new chemical fibers. For polymers synthesized by condensation, such as polyester fibers and nylon fibers, depolymerizers should be added during the degradation process; however, olefin polymers, such as polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene, need to be degraded in a reducing gas atmosphere. At present, this method has achieved large-scale production in the recovery and reuse of some high-value chemical polymer materials. However, there are many types of recycled waste textiles. The chemical degradation recovery method only degrades chemical synthetic fibers, which requires classification and sorting, and the recycling cost is too high. In waste textiles, except for some fibers that are worn and broken, most of the fibers still maintain good properties. For materials such as pure cotton and hemp that cannot be chemically decomposed by natural fibers, mechanical decomposition technology can be used to recycle waste fibers. The physical method is a method of converting knitted and woven fabrics from fabrics to fibers through mechanical treatments such as cutting, opening, and combing. In recent years, with the application of many new machines and equipment, China has achieved remarkable results in the recycling and reuse of waste textiles. At present, the products produced by some enterprises in my country using waste textile fibers have been widely used in textiles, construction, automobiles, electrical appliances, agriculture and other fields. This treatment technology can process waste into valuable products without sorting raw materials and using any chemicals. Therefore, it is the most recommended process from the perspective of ecological protection. It can be called "green environmental protection technology" and will bring benefits to any economy. It is worth noting that the China National Textile and Apparel Council and the China Ecological Civilization Research Promotion Association recently launched the "Zero Abandonment of Old Clothes-Old Clothes Recycling Activity of Chinese Brand Clothing Enterprises". The purpose of this activity is to carry out pilot projects in some well-known clothing and home textile enterprises, allowing brand enterprises to recycle old clothes independently, and play a demonstration role for future national promotion. This will not only help to establish a relatively complete recycling system of production, consumption, reuse and recycling between clothing enterprises, consumers and enterprises that comprehensively utilize waste textiles, but also combine the rational use of industrial resources with social charity and public welfare. Strengthen cooperation with upstream and downstream industrial chains, explore new models for the high-quality use of renewable resources, and create new competitive advantages. - Jinan Xinjinlong Machinery Co., Ltd.