Cooperation between China and Africa in jointly building the “Belt and Road”,Second-hand clothes are sold to Africa.In the African second-hand clothing market, China has become the largest exporter in Africa for the first time

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Every year, everyone buys new clothes, and in 2018, 54.06 billion pieces of clothing were sold nationwide.

But few people pay attention to old clothes, new clothes buy and buy, so how to deal with old clothes?

01 Never too many clothes
In rural areas, the general lifespan of clothes is 3-4 years, especially for many middle-aged and elderly people, and they are reluctant to throw them away when they are old.

In towns, the general lifespan of clothes is 1-2 years, and for young people the use time is even shorter. But many old clothes were either discarded or piled up in the closet.

According to idle fish data, the idle old clothes produced by ordinary Chinese families weigh 60 pounds a year.

In today's era of women's clothing consumption, women buy clothes at least twice a month, and trendy clothing only stays for one season. 80% of these clothes are forgotten after the season, but the number of clothes purchased is still increasing at a rate of 15% per year.

Men have a lower impulse to buy clothes, purchasing on average once a month. But they don't give away their old clothes, and they rarely throw away their old clothes.

02 Lost to half of the Daqing oilfield in one year
The data shows that the average person in China buys about 10 pieces of new clothes per year, of which 3-5 are discarded. Between 26 million and 28 million tons of clothes are discarded every year, with a utilization rate of less than 1%, which is a huge waste.

Some people know that an important raw material for clothing fiber is crude oil, which is equivalent to discarding 24 million tons of petroleum crude oil every year, more than half of the Daqing oilfield production.

So at present, the treatment of old clothes is mainly the following 4 ways:

A. Public welfare donations

There will be many non-profit organizations or institutions online that will collect used clothes and regularly send them to poor mountainous areas in central and western China, or donate them to local people in need through charities.

In addition, in many first- and second-tier cities, there are some used clothes recycling bins. Some of these recycling bins are jointly organized by the government and enterprises, and some of the clothes will be sorted and used for charitable donations.

However, due to information asymmetry, there are now many public welfare organizations or poor schools, and old clothes are almost impossible to put down.

The first batch has not yet been processed, and the second batch has come again. Some departments received donations in 2009 and still have a backlog of hundreds of thousands of used clothes.

And the cost of used clothes donation is actually very high, from recycling, sorting, disinfection, cleaning, packaging, distribution and other links, the donation cost of an old clothes is about 12-15 yuan.

B. Sell or give away

More than 500,000 pieces of used clothes are sold every month, of which post-95 young people are the main force, accounting for 34%.

Post-95 young people are not only willing to buy old clothes, but also accept old clothes donations, and 30% of the used clothes donations in Idle Fish are included in the post-95s.

Of course, women are more willing to deal with second-hand clothing sales, 4 times more than men

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C. Reprocessing

Whether it is an individual vendor or an organization, eventually the vast majority of used clothes are recycled and sorted by recycling plants.

Used clothes that cannot be sold twice, but that are not used for burning.

After sorting, it will be sold to downstream suppliers for recycling, and made into greenhouse insulation cotton, environmentally friendly gloves, environmentally friendly bags, sound insulation cotton, building materials, etc.

D. Resale

Either way, it is not the most impressive in terms of economic benefits.

For businesses specializing in the recycling of used clothes, it is only by sorting out about 90% of new clothes and selling them for secondary sales to make money.

At present, the living conditions of most families in the country have been significantly improved, and most of them will not buy old clothes to wear.

Because in China, it is very convenient to buy clothes, very cheap, there are many styles, and a very small number of used clothes flow into the local market.

So where are these huge quantities of old clothes being sold twice?

The answer is: Africa! Yes, it's Africa, and it's very profitable!

Africa"The World's Largest E-Waste Graveyard" Agbogbloshie, Ghana

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From a medium- to long-term perspective, we will adopt cutting-edge technologies and proactively promote concrete measures that contribute to social structural transformation toward a decarbonized and recycling-oriented society that is expected to grow sustainably in the future.

300 million mobile phones discarded in Africa annually "Leaked from Japan" As for the recycling of e-waste, "there is a connection between Africa and Europe, and an international chain of resource circulation has been established. It can be expanded to other resources as well. I think the environmental value behind the business is great

In addition to promoting cross-border e-commerce (EC) as part of China's "digital innovation project" jointly implemented with Africa, live commerce events are also being held at the same time to introduce excellent African-made products such as coffee and crafts.

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