1. Charitable donations
There are many public welfare organizations or institutions online that collect old clothes and regularly send them to impoverished mountainous areas in central and western my country, or donate them to local people in need through charities.
In addition, in many communities in first- and second-tier cities, there are some old clothes recycling bins. Some of these recycling bins are co-organized by the government and enterprises, and some of the clothes will be used for charitable donations after sorting.
However, due to information asymmetry, there are many non-profit organizations or poor schools, and the old clothes cannot be put away. The first batch has not been processed, and the second batch is coming. Some departments received a backlog of more than 100,000 pieces of old clothes for donation in 2009.
And the cost of donating old clothes 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.
2. Sell or give away
More than 500,000 old clothes are resold every month on Xianyu, among which young people born in 1995 are the main force, accounting for 34%.
Young people born in the 1995s are not only willing to buy old clothes, but also have a strong willingness to accept donations of old clothes. On Xianyu, 30% of the donations of used clothes are included in the bags of the post-95s generation. Of course, women are four times more willing to deal with second-hand clothing sales than men.
3. Reprocessing
Regardless of whether it is an individual vendor or an institution, most of the old clothes will eventually be recycled and sorted by the recycling plant.
The old clothes that cannot be sold again, but are not used for burning will be sorted and sold to downstream suppliers to make them into greenhouse insulation cotton, environmental protection gloves, environmental protection bags, sound insulation cotton, construction materials, etc.
4. Resale
Either of the above methods is not the most impressive in terms of economic benefits.
For merchants specializing in the recycling of old clothes, only after sorting out about 90% of the new clothes and selling them for the second time can they make money.
At present, the living conditions of most families in China have been significantly improved, and most of them will not buy old clothes to wear. Because in China, it is very convenient and cheap to buy clothes, and there are many styles, and very few old clothes enter the local market.
