How to deal with old clothes is bothering many citizens. In recent months, there has been a recycling box of environmental protection old clothes in "green coat" in many residential areas of Yining City. The citizens put the unwanted clothes in the recycling box, and finally turn the waste into treasure for reuse, which is conducive to environmental protection while helping the citizens solve the problem of old clothes disposal.
On April 13, reporters saw a recycling box of environmental protection old clothes in a prominent position at the South Gate of Xianghe garden, Zhongyuan new town, Yining City. From time to time, some residents will put their old clothes that they don't wear at home. Subsequently, the reporter contacted Hu Hengbo, who set up the old clothes recycling box, according to the phone number on the environmental protection box.
Hu Hengbo, a kid from Hebei Province, said humorously that he was engaged in an interesting career - recycling and reusing the discarded clothes, and he could make his own contribution to environmental protection while making profits.
Last August, Hu Hengbo visited Yili. In the course of playing, he found that many old clothes were thrown into the dustbin, which was a pity. Hu Hengbo's business in Hebei Province is to recycle old clothes, which makes Hu Hengbo see business opportunities when he commits "occupational disease". In the following one month, Hu Hengbo went into every community of Yining City and found that in addition to some relatively new old clothes donated through love activities, many of them were thrown away, not only failed to play the value of turning old clothes into treasures, but also polluted the environment. After returning to Hebei, Hu Hengbo decided to recycle the old clothes to Ili. After that, he went to the first and second tier cities that did a good job in this area to investigate and customize the old clothes recycling boxes.
In December last year, Hu Hengbo came to Yining city again, and after consulting with some community property companies, 300 old clothes recycling bins were put in according to the population of each community.
"In the early days of the establishment of the old clothes recycling bin, many people did not understand that there was still a phenomenon of throwing old clothes into the garbage can." Hu said. Some families throw away old clothes mixed with household garbage, which is neither environmental nor sanitary.
Every once in a while, Hu Hengbo will go to various communities for field visits. During the conversation, he opened his mobile photo album and showed reporters some photos of old clothes littering. In the photo, there are a lot of old clothes piled disorderly beside the dustbin. Hu Hengbo said that this is a process. He believed that the residents' awareness of environmental protection will gradually increase through the release of recycling bins for environmental protection old clothes.
Talking about his "strange relationship" with old clothes, Hu told reporters that he used to work for a living, and later saw the information of recycling old clothes into treasure on the Internet, which aroused his interest and decided to try. For the first time, because of inexperience, no one wanted to buy the old clothes, so they could only be piled up. Later, by contacting the old clothes processing factory, he made the old clothes into warm-keeping quilts, mops and other articles for the shed again, which made his old clothes recycling business on the right track.
Hu said that since December last year, the recycling bins he set up in Yining City have received 3 tons of used clothes. These old clothes are transported to the manufacturers in the mainland, processed and used again, and treated according to the material classification. The chemical fiber type will be "transformed" into recycled materials, and the cotton type can be directly made into mop, vegetable greenhouse insulation quilt, subgrade cloth, etc. Now, many community property companies have called him to put the old clothes recycling box.
At present, Hu Hengbo is ready to expand the market. He has set his sights on Kuitun, Karamay and other places. He said that he will strive to achieve "zero abandonment of old clothes" and play their value again.
