Where do the discarded old clothes and bed sheets go? Perhaps in the near future, after being "reborn" through high-tech means, they will become new products and return to the market.

At the recently held 2025 Circular Innovation & Fashion Conference, Sun Ruizhe, the president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, stated that from 2005 to 2024, the energy consumption per unit of output value in the textile industry will decrease by more than 65%, the annual average growth rate of the recycling and utilization of waste textiles will be 12%, and the annual usage of recycled fibers will exceed 3 million tons. Behind the impressive performance report lies the textile industry's proactive exploration and continuous deepening of the circular economy.

At present, the total amount of waste textiles generated in our country each year is huge, and the traditional treatment mode is under considerable pressure. How to achieve a high-quality cycle from "used clothes" to "new raw materials" has become the key to breaking the deadlock in the industry. Yan Yan, vice president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, said that as the world's largest producer and consumer of textiles and garments, China's development of a circular economy is not only to break through its own predicament but also to contribute to the global industrial transformation.

The year 2025 is a crucial one for the recycling and utilization of waste textiles in China. According to the "Opinions on Accelerating the Recycling and Utilization of Waste Textiles" jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2022, the recycling rate of waste textiles will reach 25% this year, and the output of recycled fibers from waste textiles will reach 2 million tons. It also guides relevant institutions and enterprises to study and formulate targets and roadmaps for the recycling and utilization of waste textiles. Actively promote the recycling and utilization of waste textiles.

At the 2025 Circular Innovation & Fashion Conference, many enterprises and research institutions showcased their latest breakthroughs - from intelligent sorting technology, enzymatic regeneration to chemical closed-loop depolymerization, a batch of new domestic technologies are gradually reducing regeneration costs and improving quality stability.

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