Chapter 18: Foreign Garbage

At noon, Lin Qiang and the others came to Shitang Town, which is located on the side of National Highway 107, and Lin Feng had already booked a private room in a restaurant in the town and was waiting for them.

After graduating from Lin Feng North Agricultural University, he returned to the Fengcheng Agricultural Bureau, and his career was not smooth, he was framed by a villain, and then transferred to the city seed company as a manager, and a few years ago he was transferred to Shitang Town, and now he is the director of the town's party and government office. Lin Feng is the kind of person who has no ambition, his personality is also at peace with what he encounters, he does not have too many negative emotions, he works diligently, and he has always been appreciated by the leaders at work, but there is no one in the court, and he has not been able to make greater progress in his career.

"Brother, I've made an appointment with the owners of several large processing plants, and I can go to them after dinner. Lin Feng has worked here for many years and knows the owners of these processing plants.

"Ah Feng, I only heard that the waste electrical appliance recycling and processing industry here is very famous in the country, but I don't know the specific situation. "Lin Qiang first wants to have a general understanding of the industry.

"Yes, the recycling and processing industry in Shitang Town has a long history, and after the rapid development in recent years, a relatively complete industrial chain has been formed. The division of labor here is also quite clear, there are those who specialize in source business, those who specialize in sorting, those who specialize in processing and refining, and those who specialize in the purchase and sale of processed products. The economic benefits generated by this industry are truly staggering, but at the same time, they have also brought serious environmental damage. Lin Feng said.

Fengcheng is located in the north-central part of Guangdong Province, compared to the real Pearl River Delta region, due to geographical reasons, the economy is relatively backward, therefore, many years ago, compared with the environment, of course, the rice bowl is more important. Even the government's view at that time represented the mainstream of an era, that is, development first and governance later, so basically no one paid attention to environmental protection in the early days of reform and opening up.

After the development and growth of other related industries, these unlicensed recycling and dismantling industries have also become the pillars of the local economy and large taxpayers, and the banning also means the collapse of local finances.

Lin Feng said that most of the waste electrical appliances in Shitang Town are still treated with the most primitive "local methods" such as open burning and strong pickling of gold. The waste gas and waste liquid produced by such a soil method will cause secondary pollution to the environment and will also cause great harm to the human body. The incineration process will produce a large amount of toxic fumes, and the process of "washing gold" will also volatilize a large amount of vapor-like acid gas, and the acid mist can be seen from a long distance. Waste electrical appliances contain lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polyvinyl chloride plastics, brominated flame retardants and other toxic and harmful substances, complex composition, with hundreds of years ago to treat the 21st century garbage, the waste water generated, and dismantled waste garbage, have caused immeasurable damage to the local environment.

This situation has attracted the attention of the top level of the government, the relevant departments of the State Environmental Protection Administration have formulated and issued the "Regulations on the Management of Recycling and Utilization of Renewable Resources" and the "Management of Recycling of Waste Household Appliances" to accelerate the establishment of a recycling system and demonstration sites for renewable resources, and promote the healthy development of the recycling of renewable resources in China.

Fengcheng City Government according to the spirit of the Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau, ordered Shitang Town to carry out relevant rectification, Lin Feng is a member of the newly established rectification team in Shitang Town, he told Lin Qiang, the town has made a good plan, is stepping up the establishment of a circular economy industrial park (waste waste industrial park), requiring all processing plants to enter the operation, and develop strict environmental protection standards, the next soon, the processing industry here will be reshuffled, some small workshops that are not strong enough will be eliminated, but want to really cut off this has formed a scale, It is very difficult to streamline the industrial chain, and the temptation of huge economic interests is difficult to break the arms of the local government.

Lin Qiang listened and pondered. He was not a mercenary businessman, and his conscience would surely be disturbed if he had caused great damage to the environment of his hometown for his own benefit. Now when I hear Lin Feng say that the local government wants to establish a circular economy industrial park, I immediately have a hunch that this kind of industry will tend to be standardized under the supervision of the government, and it will grow and develop.

"Ah Feng, I learned on the Internet, in fact, waste electrical appliances contain a variety of precious metals, but it seems that the processing plant here only focuses on the processing of scrap copper, why?"

"Brother, that's the case, in these electronic waste, the copper content is relatively enough, and statistics show that about 130 kilograms of copper, 0.45 kilograms of gold, and 20 kilograms of tin can be separated from each ton of randomly collected electronic boards. However, to refine gold, tin, and lead, it requires very professional and complex technology, and copper can be recovered by the simplest incineration method, so we are basically mainly engaged in copper processing and recycling, and there is a group of businessmen from Chaoshan who specialize in the purchase of those electronic boards, and I heard that they are pulled back to do fine refining. ”

"That means that the waste electrical appliances have to be sorted first after they are transported back to the processing plant?"

"Of course. But I heard that they are bought back according to how much money the whole container has, and sometimes it is necessary to gamble on luck, if you are lucky, you can make more money per container, but no matter what, you will basically not lose. ”

Lin Qiang nodded, he had heard Wang Chang say when he was in Dongguan, his friend had originally found workers to sort the whole container of foreign garbage, when he was lucky, he could earn hundreds of thousands per container, and he could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in general, but his own sorting was not only risky, but also involved in many links, and he really wanted to sort out the old goods to make money, the process was a bit long, and then he simply sold the whole container, although the money was less, but on average, each container could also net nearly 100,000 yuan.

The bosses of these processing plants have their own sites and manpower, and the division of labor is fine and clear, especially there are special sales channels, from the motherboard to the display screen to the plastic shell, get a container, and sell it out quickly after garbage classification, which can naturally make huge profits. As a result, this e-waste is smuggled into ports and terminals across China by sea, and buyers are not worried about any type of goods entering the port.

According to a recent report released by the United Nations University, the total amount of e-waste discarded by the world every year in the new millennium is nearly 30 million tons, and it is still growing at a rate of 2 million tons per year. And more than 50% of this staggering amount of e-waste ends up in China.

Western developed countries are technically fully capable of dealing with e-waste, but due to strict government regulation, the cost of disposal has become quite high. Driven by profits, these electronic garbage are sent to developing countries such as China for money. This is a great thing for China's domestic "importers", not only do they not have to spend a penny to buy, but the other party will pay them money, and the e-waste can be sold after being shipped back to China, making money at both ends.

Therefore, it is not surprising that a large amount of e-foreign garbage has entered China. But not ordinary people can get involved in this kind of business, first of all, they must have a network abroad, and they can handle customs in China, and Wang Chang himself has been helping foreign businessmen to do OEM processing, and has unique conditions in finding the source of goods.

In China, information and networks have long become the most important resource in the business field, and businessmen with connections can often easily earn money that others have worked hard for years to earn!