How profiteering is old shoes recycled? In China, a pair of recycled old shoes is worth 70 yuan in Africa

 This is a detailed picture of the price of recycling old shoes, as long as the standard, according to the brand classification, international brand shoes 10 yuan a pair, domestic famous 5 yuan a pair, domestic miscellaneous brand is 2 yuan a pair, can be recycled. May many friends also don't know, old shoes recycling has secretly become an emerging industry, some people on the domestic recycling old shoes, and then sold to Africa or some other backward countries in the market, annual income of more than 30, buy a car to the peak of life, so we have to question, the industry really have so profiteering?

 Xiao zhang is a nine, after graduating from college is riding a tricycle with loudspeakers, recycling the old shoes, according to zhang with us, brand shoes according to the different brand price in 2-5 yuan per pair, and ordinary shoes recycling is mostly by jin, the price of a kilo of old shoes between 0.5 yuan to 1 yuan. Of course, there are also a large number of shoes that are picked up. In this way, the cost of recycling a ton of old shoes is 1000 yuan to 2000 yuan, and then sold to professional recycling companies, a ton of old shoes can be sold for 3000 yuan to 5000 yuan, the gross profit of a ton of old shoes is about 1000-3000.

 So, where are the old shoes that Xiao Zhang has sold going again? We followed her truck to a foreign trade company in GaoVilla, Huadu District, Guangzhou. It is a regular manufacturer integrating the recycling, sorting and sales of second-hand shoes and bags. It was established in 2013, and the factory area has reached 3,000 square meters.

 Mr.Li, the person in charge of the company, hired more than 20 skilled sorting workers, who made thoughtful and proper arrangements from the selection, classification, packaging, packing, customs declaration, shipping, customs clearance of the port of destination. They also screened, classified and packaged according to the different requirements of importers in different countries. Every month, almost 10-20 containers filled with high-quality goods are exported to places like Africa and Southeast Asia. One container can hold 10,000 pairs of shoes worth up to 15,000 to 20,000 yuan. The finished products are of high quality and will eventually flow into local markets in Southeast Asia or Africa, sold at 5-30 yuan per pair.

 How popular are old shoes in Africa?

 Old shoe recycling is actually a branch of the old clothing recycling industry, in which old shoes are a relatively more lucrative source. The most common shoes in our life are leather shoes, high heeled shoes, slippers and casual sports shoes. If these old shoes are of good quality, then we can go through the export channel.

 Most countries in Africa have less than $5,000 per GDP per person and produce less than $15 per day. Because the local manufacturing industry is very backward, and these used shoes are cheap enough, so buying used shoes has become a very common local lifestyle. Kikongba Market, in the northeast of the capital Nairobi, is the largest open-air market in Kenya and the largest sales and distribution center of second-hand goods in East Africa. Also known as the "Fifth Avenue" in East Africa, the market stretches for 4 kilometers and takes only 100 shillings to buy an old pair of old shoes, or 70 yuan.

 Another reason for the recycling of old shoes as a profiteering project is that the number of employees is small, belonging to the unpopular industry, and even priceless in the market, that is, the market demand is far greater than the market supply capacity. In addition, the threshold of entry and operation difficulty is low, and the whole selling process can be completed by one person, so some people will directly go to Africa and Southeast Asia, open their own wholesale stall, production and sell.

 If the shoes are very shabby but not broken, businesses can also make money by recycling materials. The main material that constitutes shoes is divided into surface, bottom, inside 3 big pieces.

 Fabric: all the materials that make uppers are collectively called leather, and leather is divided into two categories: natural leather and artificial leather.

 Sole: according to the sole material is divided into rubber base, plastic base, leather base, foam base, TPR base, composite base, etc.

 Inside: The part used to make a shoe is called inside. Inside can be generally divided into two categories, real leather and artificial leather inside.

 After the old shoes are recycled, the leather and rubber in the old shoes are recyclable. At the same time, the leather can also be divided into leather and other leather, if distinguished, the recycling value is greater.

 But shoe material recycling also exists hard injury, according to the personage inside course of study reveals, most shoes are in after decomposition, material respect can have loss, impossible to use 100%. For example, after the sports shoes are recycled, the rubber base is granulated to make renewable rubber, but this kind of recycled rubber can not return to the original level, so the use of this recycled rubber must be combined with the original rubber, and the recycled rubber will be limited in the ratio, otherwise too much ratio of recycled rubber will weaken the firmness of the new rubber.

 Where are all the old shoes recycled to come from?

 Actually to ask friends are how to deal with old shoes, a lot of people will say, is left outside, there will be people in need to pick up, only is not special special old broken shoes will take the initiative to sell on the second-hand trading platform, a lot of time will be thrown away, also a part of friends will pay special attention to accumulate, into the love donation box outside, and good people even carefully clean, disinfection and then donate out.But there must be friends curious, where did the clothes and shoes we donated go? Are they really in the hands of the poor people that we want to help? Among them, there are other holes.

 Some of such love clothing donation boxes are officially put by government departments and love departments. There will be special people to recycle the clothes, classify, disinfect, package and store, and finally properly hand over to the people who need to receive funding. And some, it is some vendors and enterprises themselves. In short, mixed, basically is the slogan of charity, under the guise of environmental protection to cheat. The Charity Law of the People's Republic of China, which came into force on September 1,2016, stipulates that charitable organizations should obtain public qualifications for public fundraising.

 Some will even pry open the old clothes recycling box, steal the clothes inside the box, Shenzhen "old clothes" deep love " environmental protection promotion center director Jiang Zhongqiu quite helplessly said that he had met many theft of old clothing cases.

 We can say that the use of love donation box such behavior is a black industrial chain, but we should also think about is, this so-called black chain is really harmful but no benefit? According to the International Recycling Organization (BIR) study, every kilogram of waste clothing used can reduce 3.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions and save 6,000 litres of water resources. According to the calculation of China National Textile Industry Federation, if China's waste textiles can be fully recycled, the chemical fibers and natural fibers produced every year are equivalent to saving 24 million tons of crude oil, which is equal to 5% of China's total annual oil imports.

 With the attention of the country and the people to environmental protection, the recovery volume of China's renewable resources recycling industry is in a momentum of continuous growth. By the national Ministry of Commerce organization of the China's renewable resources recycling industry development report (2020), it is not hard to see, the old textile recycling reached 1.8 billion, up 13.2%, the more that this is one of the emerging industries, industry is booming is after the party and the people tested the vitality of the industry.

Old shoes are recycled to maximize the utilization of resources and reduce environmental pollution, which is also the biggest contribution of this industry to the sustainable development of our ecology.