Chapter 777: Recycling of Plastic Bags
With the birth of plastic products, this extremely convenient daily necessities have entered thousands of households, bringing convenience to people's lives at the same time, but also bringing serious troubles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The use of plastic bags, agricultural mulch films, disposable tableware, supermarket shopping bags, etc., is ubiquitous in daily life, but the problem of recycling has always been difficult to solve. Although the raw materials used to make it are non-renewable petroleum resources, under the current technology, the cost of its recycling is much higher than the cost of direct production.
At present, ordinary plastic packaging bags have low recycling value, and because the structure is stable and not easy to degrade, they become pollutants in the environment and exist for a long time, causing great harm to the environment.
The grandmother of the Yue family has been picking up garbage for recycling for more than ten years, and she has never seen a garbage station willing to recycle such ordinary plastic bags.
At that time, when she heard Zhang Kangyuan from the garbage recycling station tell her that this kind of plastic bag was one yuan a catty, the grandmother of the Yue family was worried that it was behind her ear, so she didn't hear it clearly, so she asked several times in a row.
Hearing her granddaughter Yue Xiaxia say that there was a garbage dump near her school, the grandmother of the Yue family made up her mind and was ready to go to the garbage dump to pick up plastic bags.
If you want to talk about plastic bags, because they are basically impossible to recycle at present, they are transported to the garbage dump far away from the city and landfilled. Unlike plastic pipes, recyclable garbage such as paper products is picked up in the garbage cans on the street.
If you are on the road and carrying an empty plastic bottle, there will be old people who are scavenging and come to ask for it.
The grandmother of the Yue family thinks about herself, picking up a plastic bag of more than ten catties a day, I am afraid that there is nothing difficult to do.
It's a lot of money!
The next day was the weekend, Yue Xiaxia was sensible since she was a child, finished her homework early, and accompanied her grandmother to the garbage dump to pick up plastic bags.
The garbage dumped here has been fished out several times by layers of garbage collectors, and it is really impossible to recycle it, so it was transported here by garbage trucks.
Standing on the edge of the garbage dump, Yue Xiaxia and Yue's grandmother smelled the strong stench emitted from the garbage dump, but they smiled heartily.
As far as the eye can see, most of them are colorful plastic bags, which is simply a world of "white pollution".
"Grandma, is this bag of dried sweet potatoes okay?"
"Okay!
"Grandma, look, I found a bag full of discarded plastic bags. ”
"Xiaxia is awesome, be careful with the glass. ”
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The two grandparents and grandsons were busy all day on the edge of the garbage dump, and on the rickshaw, stacks of packed plastic bags were piled up, and Yue Xiaxia had no place to sit.
In addition to the plastic bags, there are also several bags of discarded clothes.
Don't look at the truckload they have harvested, but compared to this garbage dump, it is just the tip of the iceberg.
"Grandma, I'm not going to sit down, I'm going to follow you and help you push the cart. "Yue Xiaxia is only eleven or twelve years old, but she is very sensible. The heavy tricycle, the grandmother of the Yue family is old and can't ride, Yue Xiaxia followed behind the tricycle, regardless of the day's fatigue, walked on her heavy legs, and added strength to the tricycle to make her grandmother easier.
The grandmother of the Yue family is getting older, and after working all day, her bones are about to fall apart, holding her breath, with the help of her granddaughter, she finally transported the car of plastic bags to the recycling station before the recycling station closed.
Zhang Kangyuan, a sharp-eyed young man from the recycling station, saw the tricycle of the grandmother of the Yue family, shouted with a smile, and walked down to help.
"Xiao Zhang," the grandmother of the Yue family was still a little apprehensive, "I got some plastic bags, is this really collected?"
"You can rest assured when you are old, Tong Su is not bullied, one pound is one yuan, and old clothes are one pound of anise. Zhang Kangyuan also knew that the two ancestors and grandchildren who depended on each other for their lives, otherwise they would not have penetrated the news in advance and let the grandmother of the Yue family earn this money, "Your granddaughter is also here to help you!
"Brother Zhang, let me help you weigh it!" Yue Xiaxia often follows the grandmother of the Yue family to transport recyclables here on weekdays, so she also knows Zhang Kangyuan.
5.3 kg, 6.9 kg, 4.6 kg......
Stacks of various plastic bags of various colors are weighed on the special scales of the recycling station.
The grandmother of the Yue family squinted her eyes and listened to Zhang Kangyuan report the number of catties with a smile on her face, and then Yue Xiaxia wrote down the numbers in a small notebook, counting and weighing at the same time.
"A total of 60.7 kilograms of plastic bags and 30.9 kilograms of old clothes. Yue Xiaxia handed the calculation book to Zhang Kangyuan and said, "Brother Zhang, look at the number, right." ”
"Okay, plastic bags are one pound and one yuan, and old clothes are one pound and eight cents. Zhang Kangyuan calculated the price and said, "A total of 86 yuan, grandma, wait a minute, I'll get you the money." ”
"Okay, good!" When the grandmother of the Yue family heard the price, she was excited, her hands and feet were a little trembling, and the fatigue of bending down to pick up plastic bags all day disappeared, and her old body seemed to be injected with new strength, her face was full of wrinkles and smiled and stacked together, tremblingly took the eighty-six yuan that Zhang Kangyuan took out.
She picks up plastic cans and cardboard boxes on weekdays, and she doesn't make so much money in a day.
"Thank you Xiao Zhang, thank you Xiao Zhang, I'll bring a plastic bag tomorrow. ”
Grandma Yue's family is just an old and frail waste picker, and the most profitable metal recycling is not touched, and she can only make some hard-earned money every day.
The grandmother of the Yue family hid the eighty-six yuan close to her, and after thanking Zhang Kangyuan again, she took Yue Xiaxia and went home full of joy.
"Earn eighty a day, and it's more than two thousand a month!"
"Grandma, how can you have so much luck on weekdays, but you can't be tired of making money. ”
"Milk is fine, let's study well in Xiaxia, milk saves money, and you will have to pay for college tuition in the future. ”
The grandparents and grandchildren, thinking about their future lives, walked on the way home step by step with good expectations.
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At half past five in the morning, Zhang Kangyuan hurried to the recycling station and drove a small truck from the empty space of the recycling station.
The business of recycling plastic bags, their recycling station only started this month, and the plastic bags that are useless on weekdays can bring a lot of profits to the recycling station.
The pickup truck is full of recycled plastic bags and old clothes.
In the direction of the city, about ten minutes of driving, Zhang Kangyuan's goal was a special banyan tree next to the riverside park.
The canopy of this banyan tree covers a wide area and has a very different shape compared to the surrounding banyan trees.
It has a regular semi-circular canopy that looks like an elaborate treehouse.
Zhang Kangyuan was in a parking space, parked his position, and took out a stack of heavy plastic bags from the car. Plastic bags of different sizes are tightly tied together by packing ropes to form a plastic bag square.
This one square weighs fifty pounds.
Carrying the block, he ran to the banyan tree and shouted, "I want to put a plastic bag." ”