According to a report from the Council for Textile Recycling (CTR), in the United States alone, people on average throw away 70 pounds of clothing every year, this equals to roughly 191 T-shirts per person. If these used clothes are directly sent to landfill, they not only take up space, it can also contaminate soil and groundwater and emit horrifying odors. Besides landfill, these used clothes may also be incinerated, which releases tons of greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming and climate change.
Hence, there are multiple benefits associated with recycling old clothing. No only we can reduce the landfill space, we can also lower the amount of pesticides used in growing cotton, reduce the amount of artificial fibers made from petroleum to make into textile fabrics, lower water consumption needed to dye fabrics, and cuts down on the pollutants, greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds released into the water and air from manufacturing processes. Moreover, used clothing industry creates job opportunities as well as provides people with lower income with affordable clothing.
To recycle your used clothes, the most straightforward method is to donate it to your nearest charity organization. The donated clothing will then be collected and carefully sorted according to different grades by a textile recycling companies. Those clothing in “wear-able” condition will be baled according to their grades, and be sold to third world countries such as Africa. Damaged textiles or clothing will be processed to make industrial wiping rags, or be used in high quality paper manufacturing, or material suitable for fiber reclamation and filling products.
Considering that majority of used clothes are sent abroad to countries where the demand for secondhand clothing is high, a baling machine plays an important role in recycling clothes. Lifting chamber baler from SINOBALER is specially designed for baling used clothes into dense, regularly shaped bales. The compressing chamber can be fully lifted up making it very convenient and easy to wrap and cross strap the bales. As for baling wiping rags recycled from damaged clothes, the scale weighing bagging baler offered by SINOBALER is the right machine to go. For more information, please visit our website at www.sinobaler.com, or contact us directly for a customized baling solution.
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