Secret "Old Clothes Industry Chain"

On May 26th, this newspaper reported on the “old clothing industry chain all the way to the small mountain village”, reported the old clothes distribution center near the Doudian town of Fangshan. After two months, when reporters came here again, It is still the mountainous old clothes in the village and the large trucks that continuously come in and go out to deliver and pull goods. Where did these old clothes from Beijing collect? What's the use? The reporter traced a large truck with a Hebei license plate pulling goods and came to Hebei Renqiu and Anxin. Here, these dirty and smelly old clothes were directly made into cotton, and they were made into dirty quilts, and a large part of them were sold back to Beijing.

Every day there are cars to pull goods

In the old clothing distribution center near the Doosan Town intersection in Fangshan, a large bag of old clothes piled up like a mountain. In the shed of the front yard, a dozen workers are sorting out. They pick out the better old clothes and make them separately. Some of them will be sold in the city, and most of the rest will be pulled out.

“The old clothes are drawn to the fields to make flowers as quilts and then sold back.” The owner whispered, pointing to a pile of black cotton wool on the ground. “This is black heart cotton. It is we have withdrawn again and can also be pulled out to the field. To reprocess."

The owner proudly told reporters that because of strict control, many flowering plants around Beijing have been closed. Now, the number of vehicles coming to pull goods is less than in previous years. “I’m OK. Every day, there are vehicles to pull goods, there are Hebei, and there are Henan."

As he said, a large truck with a Hebei license came in and stopped beside a pile of old clothes. The owner began to use the old clothes packed into the car.

The driver said that he is Renqiu in Hebei. The car will be pulled back around 6 tons and then made into flowers to make quilts and sell them.

After 40 minutes, the big truck was full and the old clothes bag was over a meter high. The driver drove out of the compound with his car.

Old clothes transported into Renqiu Village of Renqiu

The reporter decided to follow the trail by car and find out.

The large trucks from the Jingshi Expressway surrounded the Beijing-Kaidong Expressway along the 6th and headed south to Hebei. After more than 130 kilometers of walking, he took off the main road in Renqiu and walked about more than 10 kilometers in the area of ​​Qiguaibaguai and entered a large yard in a small village.

In a large yard in Renqiu Village, Renqiu, a stench of old clothes can be smelled away from six or seven meters. The large trucks that just brought in old clothes from Beijing are unloading their goods. They piled up in the yard in packets and several villagers took apart the old clothes bags and began sorting.

The yard occupies more than two acres. On the edge there is a row of three simple bungalows for the owner to live in. The south side of the bungalow is a new factory building. A shed is placed on the east side of the factory building. All the old clothes are sorted in this shed.

"My name is Dong. If you buy cotton, the old clothes are cheap and good, and in this area, I have the largest scale of production here." Xiao Dong said.

“Is this health? To be suitable I want to order for a long time.” The reporter asked as a buyer.

Xiao Dong was very excited to see the big buyers coming. He told reporters that the cotton produced in his factory is actually black and white, which can produce about two tons a day and increase to three tons if necessary, but he does not disinfect.

Xiao Dong pulled the reporter to visit the factory. Pointing at several middle-aged women who are sorting old clothes, Xiao Dong said, “These are all I hired. They need to first remove the zipper, buttons, and other metal objects from the old clothes, and then divide them into different colors. One of the three is one of the most white, usually old white shirts, mosquito nets, etc.; one is light-colored; the other is flower-colored and dark-colored."

The south side of the plant is a row of flower punchers. Xiao Dong said that after sorting, she went to the machine for flowering and pressed it into cotton. The most white is called "big white", a ton of about 2,000 yuan; light-colored is called "two white", a ton of 1600 yuan; variegated made of black cotton is the cheapest, a ton of 1200 yuan. One ton of cotton can do about 600 beds of black-and-white quilts. This quilt has also been referred to by Beijing as "the migrant workers." "In addition to being covered, a quilt cost is between 5 and 8 yuan, and at least a dozen yuan will be sold in Beijing."

Xiao Dong also told reporters that this cotton is best not to touch water. If it gets wet, it will smell bad.

Many villages are processing black cotton

During the chat, Xiao Dong told reporters that he is a local farmer and his family has 6 people and 5 mu of land, and his life is very tight. In order to make more money, he made more than 100,000 yuan to open this factory. The machines are all second-hand and very cheap. However, it takes more than two years to recover the costs. It has to be a very good business.

Xiao Dong said that his raw materials are old clothes, all from Beijing. He had several telephone calls in his hand, and there were people who sent the calls. As far as they were shipped from Beijing, he did not care, and people were not willing to tell him. "A piece of old clothes made from black cotton will earn a few hundred dollars and the profits will be thin."

Xiao Dong admits that these black cottons, which are made of old clothes, are very dirty and they do not even have to use them themselves. They also wear masks at work. “A full day is spent on the boot. The yard is full of dirty cotton, and people are staying at home. In the summer, the doors and windows have to be closed."

“In several villages in this area, there are many cottons made from old clothes, but we are the largest one, as long as ordering guarantees that we will work on time.” Xiao Dong patted his chest and pledged. He also revealed that near the east of the city, there is a factory that specializes in making the cotton into quilts, which is very large.

Here is the city of Renqiu in the west of Hebei. The reporter's investigation revealed that many villages in the surrounding areas have been working as quilts and non-woven fabrics. From the west of Renqiu City to the west to the area around Anxin, there is a small factory near every corner. Some of them used to buy cloth from factories to make flowers without fabrics or quilts, and some simply bought old clothes from Beijing to make black cotton. Many small factories have piles of broken cotton lumps around them, and the garbage they throw at random is mostly rags. Some of them also have a tangy smell and smell.

These black hearts made from old clothes are sold back to Beijing and sold throughout the country.

West City seized

Sale black dens

The reporter recently visited a number of shops selling cotton fabrics and found that there was a black den that sold black heart quilts near the West Gate of the People's Government. It was immediately reported to the industry and commerce departments.

In this hardware store near the west gate of the People’s Government, there are several quilts in the container. The shop owner said that these quilts are very cheap, only 15 yuan, he now has 7 stores, if necessary, he can stock at any time, how much.

The reporter opened the quilt and saw that the cotton inside was black. There were still a lot of scum in the cotton group, and a handful of smoke was thrown by hand.

Half an hour later, when the reporter returned to the hardware store with the law enforcement officials, the owner refused to sell the black cotton quilt. Under the confrontation of the reporter, the owner of the shop took the law enforcement officers to the back room and the seven black heart quilts had been hidden in the bedroom.

When business and law enforcement officials questioned the origin of black and white cotton, the owner only said that he did not know or did not know the delivery person.

The law enforcement officers checked the seven black heart quilts and compared them with the black heart cotton that the reporter brought back from Renqiu. They found that the two types of cotton were exactly the same.