Development Status Of Renewable Resources Recovery Industry In China

Where are your eliminated items?

The development report of China's renewable resources recovery industry (2020) (hereinafter referred to as the report) released recently by the Ministry of Commerce shows that by the end of 2019, China's total amount of renewable resources recovery has reached 354 million tons, with a total recovery of about 900.38 billion yuan. There are about 100000 renewable resources recovery enterprises with about 15 million employees, and the total amount of renewable resources recovery of main varieties is gradually rising.

According to the data, at present, the recycling network has been established in most parts of the country, and the "Internet + recycling" mode is gradually mature, and the recycling system integrating recycling, sorting and distribution is gradually improved.

Recycling becomes easier

- from shouting on the street to booking at one click, and from covering the first and second tier cities to the third and fourth tier cities

In the past, whenever there was a "rag collection" on the street, someone poked his head out of the window and called on the other party to collect the "rags". Old clothes, old books, burnt pots, and small appliances that are not easy to use are all taken away and exchanged for a share of the money for vegetables. Nowadays, it's hard to hear such a cry.

At the same time, at the moment of consumption upgrading, young people buy new clothes more and more frequently, and old clothes are piling up at home.

How to deal with the old things?

Someone put it in the waste textile recycling box at the door of the community. Baiyun, a Shanghai citizen, told reporters that a waste textile recycling box has been placed in the community, and from time to time there will be administrators to pull away the old clothes in the box. "After the implementation of waste classification in Shanghai, we can also give the old clothes and electrical appliances to the garbage sorting administrator, and aunts will help with the disposal."

Some people choose to sell second-hand goods. There are about 100 JK uniform skirts and other clothes in Xiaopei's home of Beijing citizen, and the wardrobe is out of stock. "I will sell skirts that I don't like and wear many times on the idle fish. Although the price is a little lower, I can still get some blood back." according to Pei's LEIYU homepage, Xiaopei has sold 126 products on the idle fish, with an income of about 46000 yuan.

Some people choose to replace it with virtual objects. On the platform of flying ants, we can recycle used clothes, bed sheets and covers, shoes, old bags and other second-hand goods. After recycling, we can obtain Alipay ant forest energy, and 1kg can exchange 158 ant energy. "I usually sort out some old clothes when I change seasons, and then make an appointment to fly ants to collect them. On the one hand, the reputation of this platform is good and reliable; on the other hand, I want the energy of ant forest, so I can continue to plant trees for public welfare." Tang Nu Shi, a Beijing citizen, said.

With the rapid development of electronic products, recycling of old household appliances has become a problem that almost every consumer needs to consider. Pei bought a Nikon SLR for nearly 9000 yuan seven or eight years ago, and sold it to the idle fish for 1815 yuan last year. "Compared with the purchase price, the recycling price is not high, but it can make the unused old electronic products" have a place "or even" be useful ", I think it is OK," said Xiao Pei.

With the development of Internet technology, recycling becomes more and more convenient. Taking mobile phone recycling as an example, in addition to consignment recycling on the platform and on-site recycling by appointment engineers, idle fish has also launched a one-stop mobile phone home recycling business with logistics companies. Users can log in to the leisure fish app "worry free selling" channel and make an online evaluation, and then decide whether to place an order and make a home-to-door recycling. The system will evaluate the model, storage capacity, screen appearance and other dimensions to determine the recycling price. Then, the courier according to the appointment time, free door-to-door pick-up, through professional equipment on-site inspection, face-to-face transfer payment. In terms of valuation standardization, quality inspection visualization, data cleaning, service efficiency, etc., it has been further upgraded. At present, the service has been opened in 50 cities across the country. In addition to the main first and second tier cities, it also covers the third and fourth tier cities such as Zhumadian, Chaozhou and Liaoyang.

Multiple ways of reprocessing

- donated to children in remote areas and disassembled into raw materials for reuse

According to the data, from 2017 to the end of 2020, more than 50000 tons of old clothes and 23.7 million copies of old books were recovered. Where are the recycled items?

Old clothes are a big part of recycled goods. An old clothes sorting factory in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, processes more than 10000 parcels a day, and the sorting volume in the season change is at least twice as high as usual. The person in charge said that 20% of the clothing of the factory will be sold to downstream factories for recycling, making felt, carpet, greenhouse quilt and other products; Another 15% goes to donations.

Old books are often screened and donated to areas in need. It is understood that idle fish has launched a public welfare activity "fish power" to donate old books. The platform will screen and renovate the recycled old books. "Children in remote areas are not only short of books, but also have the problem of mismatching books," said the head of leisure fish, "When donating books, people often don't think much about the nature of books and give priority to eliminating low-quality books, which leads to a mixture of good and bad books." fish power action "can ensure that the books flowing to mountain schools match children's reading needs, which is a more accurate way of donating books." at present, "fish power action" is an effective way to donate books It has carried out four phases of public welfare donation to six mountain primary schools and two kindergartens, including gongbeiwan primary school in Longquan Town, Dongxiang County, Gansu Province, Gaozhuang kindergarten in Songji Town, Xiping County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. Last year, the free fish opened a reading day zone for Gansu Province and other provinces to read 100000 books. Users can get a book by paying 0.01 yuan for postage.

How to deal with old household appliances? Take the idle fish as an example. At present, the leisure fish household appliances recycling business covers six categories: refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine, TV, freezer and commercial kitchen electricity. After users make online booking, professional service providers come to visit for quality inspection, evaluation and recycling, so as to improve the experience and efficiency of home appliances recycling. The recycled household appliances with low residual value will flow into the dismantling plant and be disassembled for recycling of raw materials; High residual value of recycled household appliances, after being processed by service providers, part of them enter the second-hand market for re circulation.

Industry insiders point out that waste hardware, such as compressors, motors, wires and heat sinks, are disassembled in an environmentally friendly way to form renewable resources such as copper, aluminum, steel and plastics, which are sold to downstream waste recycling enterprises to realize resource recycling. This mode can not only turn waste into treasure, realize resource reuse, but also reduce resource waste.

The regeneration rate needs to be improved

At present, there are still some problems, such as low level of fine sorting and low recycling efficiency

In recent years, a series of policies and measures focusing on the recycling of renewable resources have been implemented. In 2016, the Ministry of Commerce and other six departments issued the opinions on promoting the transformation and upgrading of renewable resources recovery industry; In 2017, the national development and Reform Commission and other departments issued the "leading action of circular development", proposing to promote the new mode of "Internet + recycling"; In July this year, the "14th five year" circular economy development plan proposed to improve the waste material recycling network, actively implement the "Internet + recycling" mode, and realize online and offline collaboration; In August this year, the national development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and other three departments jointly issued the notice on encouraging household appliance manufacturers to carry out the target responsibility system for recycling. It is clear that by 2023, a number of demonstration benchmarks for implementing the target responsibility system for household appliance manufacturers will be developed, and a number of reproducible and popularized recycling modes and experiences will be formed, and the recycling rate of key household appliances will be significantly improved, The ability and level of the main body of the recycling market of waste household appliances has been significantly improved... The favorable policies have vigorously promoted the rapid development of "Internet + recycling".

The mode of "Internet + recycling" does not have much time and geographical boundaries in circulation. The platform can quickly match the idle supply and demand by using the network. "Idle goods are misplaced resources. We have been advocating the concept of" changing waste into consumption ", encouraging users to take part in the recycling economy and green low-carbon life through the secondary circulation or recycling of idle fish, so as to generate greater social value." the person in charge of idle fish said that the "Internet + recycling" mode of idle fish is sinking and covering more counties.

According to the report, at present, the scale of China's renewable resources recovery industry has been significantly expanded, and the total amount of recycled resources of main varieties has gradually increased, but there are still problems such as low level of fine sorting and low recycling utilization rate.

Due to the extensive sources of renewable resources and complex recovery paths, domestic recycling enterprises are generally small in scale, poor in equipment and backward in technology. The sorting of renewable resources is still roughly classified by manual work. It is difficult to effectively separate different types and series of raw materials. Downstream enterprises still need to spend manpower and capital for pretreatment in the process of utilization, resulting in high cost of recovery, The recycling rate of renewable resources is low. At the same time, some renewable resources recovery enterprises lack of standardized disposal capacity, pollution control facilities are not perfect, and some even do not have corresponding supporting facilities, so it is easy to produce dust, waste water and other environmental problems in the production and stacking process.

According to the report, it is estimated that China produces more than 20 million tons of waste textiles every year. One of them is the scrap in the field of industrial processing before consumption, which is basically recycled; The other is a large number of waste clothes and textiles idle in the hands of residents, with a recycling rate of about 15%.

Pan Yonggang, Secretary General of China Renewable Resources Recycling Association, suggested that in the future, in areas with mature conditions, such as areas with concentrated textile or chemical industries, distribution centers for recycled materials such as waste textiles should be established, so as to form a scale advantage of renewable resources recycling. (reporter Xu Peiyu)

(source: overseas edition of people's daily)