Faced with the feedstock collection threshold of a multi-billion-yuan waste textile recycling project, Jiangling in Hubei chose to have the government step in and build the recycling system itself. As of the end of August 2026, Jingzhou Hengyi Resource Recycling Co., Ltd., based locally, had developed a total of 8,785 recycling outlets, signed contracts with more than 400 B-end textile and apparel enterprises, and was collecting about 1,200 tons of waste textiles per day.

Hengyi's Jingzhou project involves investment of more than 10 billion yuan, with the goal of building the country's largest and most technologically advanced industrial base for waste textile recycling, achieving harmless and high-value recycling and utilization of waste textile materials. According to the plan, the project requires support from storage and sorting carriers of more than 400,000 tons. Zhi Sheji, director of the Jiangling County Investment Promotion Center, said that many places had expressed interest in bringing in this project, but the collection and storage of large-scale waste textile feedstock was a hard threshold, and "the pain points are still concentrated in the recycling, distribution, and supporting links."

Jiangling's response was to form a dedicated working group, coordinate the planning of sorting, storage, and transfer zones, build the 137-mu Hengyi Waste Textile Green Sorting Center, and coordinate the implementation of a 390,000-cubic-meter waste textile storage base. On the recycling side, the local government built a county-township-village three-tier recycling network tailored to the project, innovatively integrated existing grassroots outlets of supply and marketing, postal, and express delivery networks, deployed more than 100 waste textile recycling outlets, and adopted an operating approach of government guidance and market leadership. Yang Hua, director of the Jiangling County Supply and Marketing Cooperative Joint Association, introduced that when the project first landed, the enterprise was not fully confident about building such a large-scale recycling system.

Feedstock supply was another hurdle. The local government then pushed Hengyi to establish cooperation with express delivery companies, apparel processing enterprises, and renewable resource recycling enterprises, stabilizing supply sources while helping it open up recycling markets outside the county. In addition to the offline network, Hengyi also launched a nationwide online recycling platform where users can make one-click appointments for drop-off.

A relevant person in charge of Hubei Hengyi said that the Hengyi Group is accelerating its transformation from "industrial Hengyi" to "technological Hengyi," and that Jiangling's business environment has provided strong support for the project's advancement, giving the enterprise confidence that it can build it into a national-level benchmark for the circular economy industry. In 2026, Jingzhou Hengyi plans to develop 12,000 C-end recycling outlets, mainly within Hubei Province while also facing the whole country; at present, the local government is pushing Hengyi to use Jiangling as a model and replicate and promote this recycling model externally.

For the waste textile recycling industry, the significance of this case lies in the fact that what often constrains large-scale regeneration is not end-of-line processing technology, but the ability to aggregate front-end feedstock. A local government activating public network resources, building hundreds of thousands of tons of storage and a recycling system for a single project, and then promoting the model externally provides a reference path for similar projects to solve the problem of being "underfed."

Source: Business Environment Everyone Talks About | "Without a recycling system, we build one ourselves" — Jiangling helps enterprise build a 400,000-ton waste textile storage center · Originally published on 2026-09-16