Investigation motivation When it comes to moving and changing seasons, many residents will eliminate a batch of old clothes that they don't wear. For many residents who want to "give up", these old clothes at the bottom of the pressure box take up space and are thrown away directly, which is a waste. As a result, offline recycling sites and online recycling platforms for used clothes have gradually come into people's view. It's a good thing that old clothes can be reused. But people can't help asking: where did the old clothes go after recycling? Can the recycling of those who claim charity and donations really send old clothes to those who need them? With these questions, the reporter conducted an investigation and interview. A few days ago, Ms. Wang, a resident of Heping District in Tianjin, picked up a large bag of old clothes from her home, weighing more than ten kilograms, and carried it downstairs and put it into the old clothes recycling box in the community. "Many old clothes are actually not very old. It's a pity to throw them away, and they may also pollute the environment. If they can be treated and reused, it's also a good thing to give them to people in need." Ms. Wang said that in the past three years, she has at least put hundreds of kilograms of old clothes into the old clothes recycling box in the community. Looking at the words "donation" and "charity" on the old clothes recycling box, she always had a question: can these old clothes really be properly disposed of and sent to people who really need them? Old clothes recycling boxes are set up everywhere Some people fake charity organizations According to public reports, around 2014, all kinds of old clothes recycling bins mushroomed in residential areas around the country. In 2019, the special committee of the waste textile comprehensive utilization alliance of Shandong Circular Economy Association counted that there were more than 23000 waste clothing recycling boxes in Shandong, and the member enterprises of the waste textile special committee could recycle 300000 tons of waste clothing every year. Recently, reporters from the rule of law daily visited more than 30 communities in Beijing and Tianjin, and interviewed residents in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places. They learned that in the city, almost every community can see old clothes recycling bins, and some communities have four old clothes recycling bins side by side. Except that a few of these used clothes recycling boxes are offline recycling points of the used clothes recycling app, most of them are printed on the box“ ×× Charity Association "" donation "“ ×× Recycling project "," Ministry of Civil Affairs filing number "and other words. Well, many printed“ ×× Are the "donation" used clothes recycling bins of the Charity Association set up by charity organizations? After consulting the Tianjin Civil Affairs Bureau, the reporter learned that there are mainly two kinds of used clothes recycling boxes placed in the community. One is the establishment of a charity organization, which belongs to public fund-raising. This behavior should be qualified for public fund-raising. At the same time, the name of the organization, the certificate of fund-raising qualification, contact information, etc. should be printed on the prominent position of the box. At the same time, it should also be publicized on the national charity information disclosure platform (hereinafter referred to as charity China platform); The other is the recycling of old clothes by individuals or enterprises, which is in the form of garbage classification and paid recycling of old clothes in a commercial way, but the box put in is not a donation box, nor is it within the scope of public donation. The relevant staff of the Bureau told reporters that it is easy to identify whether it belongs to charity. Those with the words "environmental protection" and "recycling" on the box are commercial acts, while those with the words "charity", "love" and "public welfare" on the box are charitable acts. It is understood that there are only two old clothes recycling projects in the name of charity in Tianjin. However, during the investigation, the reporter found that there were at least five kinds of charity project names involved in the box. Only the old clothes recycling project mentioned by the staff before marked the name and telephone of the launching unit and the supervision unit according to the relevant regulations. The information on other recycling boxes only included the project name and contact information, and some did not even indicate the recycling destination. The reporter tried to dial the contact numbers left on these boxes. Among the nine calls, two were turned off, three were empty numbers, and three were not answered. The only one who got through said that he didn't know what the old clothes were recycled, and that he was only responsible for installing these boxes, so he could contact if necessary. Some of the recycling bins are printed with the public welfare and environmental protection project of "not giving up clothes". The reporter logged on to the charity China platform and found that the initiating organization of the project was the Jiangxi Red Cross Foundation. At the same time, the progress of fund-raising was written "the project has not carried out public fund-raising activities on any platform or offline. After communication between the Jiangxi Red Cross Foundation and the project partner, the cooperation with the project will be stopped". Meng Chao in Jizhou District of Tianjin has been engaged in the recycling of old things for five years, including the recycling of old clothes. He told reporters that the collected used clothes mainly have two types of flows: the used clothes that meet the donation requirements will be donated, and those that do not meet the donation will be used for environmental regeneration and recycling. "In fact, the old clothes donated to poor mountainous areas may be less than one tenth of the total for charity." "We call all kinds of clothes mixed together 'Tonghuo', which can sell for about 1000 yuan per ton. If they are classified or deeply processed, the price will be doubled. For example, good jeans clothes can sell for 4000 yuan per ton, and down and cashmere clothes can sell for tens of thousands of yuan per ton. Because of the high profit space, some vendors use their brains and put some recycling boxes in the community in the name of charity, trying to make money Business. " Meng Chao told reporters that in recent years, some people often pull the old clothes recycled from the community to sell them to him. "Basically, go to each community once a month, open the box and pull away the clothes inside, which can pull about a ton at a time. There are several old clothes recycling boxes in some communities, which may be put by the same person." The reporter searched the e-commerce platform with the keyword "old clothes recycling box" and found that there are many online stores where publicity can professionally customize the charity donation of old clothes recycling box. One of the customer service told reporters that they have general boxes here, which can also be customized according to the situation of each province or individual needs. Then, the customer service sent a piece printed with "Fujian Province" ×× The sample of the recycling box of "public welfare project" also has the filing number of the Civil Affairs Department on it. On the charity China platform, the reporter found that there was indeed a public welfare project for recycling old clothes. When the reporter further asked whether individuals or enterprises could directly use the recycling box printed with the public welfare project, the other party did not give a clear reply. The store information shows that the monthly sales volume of used clothes recycling bins in the store is more than 100. In addition to setting up old clothes recycling bins by counterfeiting charities, the reporter also found in the investigation that the old clothes recycling bins in some communities have rusted and become garbage cans because they have not been used and managed for a long time. There are also recycling boxes because the box is damaged, the door of the box is half open, and a lot of clothes are exposed inside. The whereabouts of recycled old clothes are unknown There is something fishy about reward exchange In addition to offline used clothes recycling bins, various online used clothes recycling applets and apps are also gradually increasing. The reporter found dozens of institutions that can recycle old clothes on a platform. Among them, the number of users of "white whale old clothes recycling" recently exceeded 2million, "shutter recycling old clothes recycling" and "Dang Dang old clothes recycling" recently exceeded 1million. Unlike some offline recycling in the name of charity, online old clothes recycling is mostly paid, and many are free door-to-door recycling, without express delivery fees, and users will be given a certain "reward" after recycling. Take the "recycling of used clothes of flying ants" as an example. After the clothes are recycled, an environmental protection certificate will be issued, ant forest energy will be rewarded, and one of the following activities will be selected: a cash red envelope of 0.5 yuan will be awarded for each kilogram of clothes recycled, which can be withdrawn; Donate 100g animal rations to the homeless animal rescue station for each order of old clothes recycled; You can get 50 green beans for every kilogram of clothes recycled, which can be used to exchange for various household goods, APP members, etc. During the investigation, the reporter found that there are also some problems in online old clothes recycling. Not long ago, the reporter placed an old clothes recycling order on a recycling platform and agreed to pick up the goods at 5 p.m., but no one contacted until 6:30 p.m. after consulting customer service, he learned that express delivery was not the platform's own, but cooperated with other express delivery companies. After contacting the courier, the reporter was told that he didn't know why the system sent this order to him. If he wanted to recycle the old clothes, he had to wait until he finished sending the pieces in hand first. Later, the time of door-to-door recycling was changed again and again, and the box of old clothes was successfully sent out until the third day. The reporter packed a total of 11 spring and summer clothes and a pair of shoes, and specially weighed them before sending them out, showing that they were 3.8kg. The courier did not weigh the old clothes when he took them away, but the order page showed that the recovered weight was 10 kg and the express fee was 42 yuan (borne by the recycling platform). Subsequently, the reporter reported the matter to the platform customer service, who said that there would be someone specially responsible for the settlement of freight. On the recycling tracking page, the reporter can only see the process of sending the old clothes from the express site to the recycling platform warehouse, and then how to deal with the old clothes in the future is unknown. In the investigation, the reporter found that the recycling of old clothes, whether online or offline, is common, especially offline. Many people put old clothes in the recycling box and then "black their eyes", and it is not clear where they went or who took them away. In addition to the recycling link, the reward exchange link after online recycling is also tricky. In February this year, Mr. Yin of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province sent 5 kilograms of idle clothes through the online used clothes recycling platform, exchanged a 20 yuan gift certificate, and exchanged the gift certificate for a 1 kg bottle of laundry detergent. However, up to now, the platform has been refusing to deliver goods on the grounds that there is an epidemic in Suzhou, while other express deliveries have long been normal. After checking the evaluation information, Mr. Yin found that many users had similar problems with him. In May this year, Ms. Xiao from Wuhan, Hubei Province completed a used clothes recycling order on a used clothes recycling app. The order reward page showed that she could get a cash red envelope of 52 yuan. After Ms. Xiao chose to withdraw cash, the money failed to arrive. In the meantime, Ms. Xiao tried to contact online customer service and also called manual customer service, but failed. Regular public fundraising Improve process and strengthen supervision On March 17 this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued the "tips on prohibiting organizations or individuals without public fund-raising qualifications to carry out waste clothing recycling in the name of charity", emphasizing that only charitable organizations with public fund-raising qualifications can carry out public fund-raising activities. If a charitable organization finds that it falsely uses the name of the organization, it should timely issue an announcement to clarify the facts and report the situation to the local relevant departments to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests. In reality, why does the old clothes recycling behavior of falsely using the name of charity and consuming others' love exist for a long time? According to Meng Qiang, a professor at the Law School of Beijing University of technology, this is due to interests. "Some enterprises or individuals are clearly engaged in the profit-making behavior of recycling old clothes, but they package themselves as a charity behavior engaged in the donation of old clothes, and even use the love of residents to cheat the donation of clothes in the name of the civil affairs department." In 2020, the report on inspecting the implementation of the charity law of the people's Republic of China issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress pointed out: "over the past four years since the implementation of the law, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country have rarely implemented administrative penalties in accordance with the charity law, and most cities divided into districts have been 'zero penalties' for four years. The inspection found that administrative supervision by some grass-roots competent departments was not in place." Meng Qiang said that such counterfeiting should be interfered by the counterfeited civil affairs department or the clues should be transferred to the relevant law enforcement departments and market supervision departments