“Pig wool and chicken hair are also bleached and used.”
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There is controversy after a ‘fake jacket’ made from a recycled badminton shuttlecock was revealed in China.
In the year On the 17th, local Chinese media Dahebao reported that lower-jacketed companies were caught buying used shuttlecocks in bulk. These companies are known to separate the feather portion from the shuttlecock and crush it to use silk-like silk as a filler material.
This is not the first time the ‘shuttlecock down jacket’ has been controversial.
Earlier, China Central Television (CCTV) sparked controversy late last month by revealing that ultra-low-cost jacket products use secret elbow as filler. Local Chinese media began reporting in-depth to find the source of the secret, and discovered that the industry secret was ‘shuttlecock’.
It was discovered that in related industries such as badminton fans who were tasked with cleaning badminton stadiums across the country were collecting used shuttlecocks and selling them for cash to these companies.
“The fiber produced by crushing shuttlecock feathers is thin and strong,” said a company official, “and has good resilience when used as padding or cushioning.”
This phenomenon seems to be related to the recent increase in the price of duck and goose feathers by more than 1.5 times per year. Some companies feel they are burdened with the cost of refilling items made from duck or goose, so they recycle shuttlecocks.
Another business owner admitted, “Shuttlecock recycling has been done for several years, and it’s close to conscience.” “I have seen chicken or pig hair being ground and used,” the official added, adding, “It also goes through a bleaching process.”
Fake jackets pretending to be stuffed with duck or goose down are distributed at low prices on e-commerce platforms. Experts have pointed out that the ‘shuttlecock jacket’, which at first glance appears to be eco-friendly, is very different from the actual down jacket in terms of warmth and lightness, and the dust generated during the manufacturing process can stick to the fibers and fibers. It causes allergies.
Experts added that caution is needed especially when buying children’s jackets sold online at low prices.
Additionally, a children’s clothing company located in a clothing complex in China’s Jiangxi Province, Jiujiang, recently attracted controversy by selling fake duck down pads and advertising them as “Duck Down.”
The company used hair scraps from the manufacturing process, not duck down. In other words, they are caught using garbage as filler.
All certificates showing that the filler material has passed inspection standards are fake. In the end, the authorities arrested three executives of the company that made the fake duck down padding and took 7 million yuan (about 1.39 billion won) of the 70,000 fake padding.