Is it true that you can earn 2 million yuan a year by recycling old clothes? What is the use of recycling old clothes?

Do you know where the clothes you throw into the community trash can end up? Do you know why genuine brand-name products sold at roadside stalls are priced below 100 yuan? If you live in the west, you may see stalls selling all kinds of clothes for "20 yuan a piece" on the street when you go to market. Is it true that you can make 2 million yuan a year by recycling old clothes? What is the use of recycling old clothes? Let’s learn more about it with Feng Chao from Dongguan Network Promotion !

Is it true that you can earn 2 million yuan a year by recycling old clothes? What is the use of recycling old clothes?

The second-hand clothing market is huge, with low costs and high profits

Why did old clothes turn into Tang Monk’s meat? Mr. Zhou, an industry insider, said that this is related to the fact that my country has explicitly banned the import of "foreign garbage" including textile waste since the end of 2017. Many manufacturers who used to use waste textiles from "foreign garbage" as raw materials have had to turn to domestic sources of supply, and placing recycling bins has become a convenient and low-cost way.

Mr. Zhou said that the recycling of old clothes belongs to the resource-based recycling industry, which mainly includes recycling, processing and sales. From the perspective of renewable resources, old clothes are called waste textiles, which are the same as used beverage bottles, opened express boxes and books that are ready to be thrown away. Old clothes can be processed into primary products such as cloth strips, mops, greenhouse insulation felts, etc. Through recycling, cotton, non-woven fabrics, chemical fibers, etc. can be produced. The quality can be no different from new products and has a wide range of uses.

The cost of recycling old clothes is low, the threshold is low, and the profit is high. Mr. Zhou told reporters that the so-called low cost means that it only costs 400 yuan to make a recycling bin, and the low threshold means that many companies or individuals, under the banner of environmental protection, mark the recycling bins as garbage classification, and then place them in the community with the consent of the property management.

"Some people think that the used clothes market is just for collecting junk, but in fact this market is very profitable, and it is not difficult to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year." Mr. Zhou did some calculations for the reporter: if you put a used clothes recycling bin in a community, you can receive 1 ton of used clothes a year. The purchase price of the recycling company is 1,200 yuan per ton, so the annual income of a recycling bin is 1,200 yuan. If there are 1,000 recycling bins in different communities, that would amount to 1.2 million yuan a year. After deducting 400,000 yuan in recycling bin and transportation costs in the first year, we can still make hundreds of thousands of yuan. There is no need to deduct the cost in the second year, so you can make more money, and you can add recycling bins after making money.

Is it true that you can earn 2 million yuan a year by recycling old clothes? What is the use of recycling old clothes?

General goods are generally divided into five categories:

One category is summer clothes, with the best yarn and dark denim is also popular. Other clothes are required to be short-sleeved, short skirts, shorts, and women's underwear. Because most of these clothes are resold to tropical regions such as Africa and Southeast Asia, summer clothes are the most popular. Depending on the style and age of the clothes and the ratio of yarn to clothing, the price is around 4,000 to 5,000 per ton.

The second category is winter clothing, including cotton-padded jackets and outerwear . This type of clothing requires new styles and good looks, but this type of clothing cannot be sold abroad, so it is turned to domestic sales, to street stalls, foreign trade stores and clothing factories, but the price is less than half of summer clothing.

The third category is leftover summer and winter clothes that look as good as new and cost less than 1,000 per ton.

The fourth category is clothes with holes, faded colors, and old looks , or with stains and blood that cannot be washed out. These clothes are mainly used to collect metals, such as zippers and various metal accessories. The most valuable copper zippers are sold to factories at a price of 20,000 per ton, and the prices of other metal accessories vary. After collecting the metals, the torn clothes are sold at a low price of 400 per ton. Some people buy them and break them into pieces to make greenhouse insulation cloth. This is called "blooming." Many media brothers want to understand this industrial chain, but because they cannot go deeper, they cannot understand many professional terms, among which "blooming" is the most confusing for them. The leather materials after collecting the metals are recycled by the leather factory and re-pulped and processed into new leather goods.

The fifth category is some special clothing , such as down jackets, white cloth, and blankets, which were once hot-selling items and are also favored by secondary recyclers.

The above is that you can earn 2 million a year by recycling old clothes. Is it true? What is the use of recycling old clothes? When old clothes are thrown into a recycling bin for used clothes, even if the box is not marked with words such as "public welfare", "charity" or "donation", as long as there is no clear commercial purpose, it should be considered a "donation" and a public fundraising. Therefore, he suggested that relevant departments should distinguish the difference between donations and garbage disposal and introduce relevant policies to regulate this industry.