Chapter 245 - E-Waste Disposal (1)
Wei Minsheng felt that Liu Mengling's suggestion was very good, although there are no major problems in the operation of Minsheng Company at present, but if you want to become bigger and stronger in the future, it will be a little reluctant.
If the mobile terminal platform is occupied through the APP, all the initiative is in the hands of the company itself, and there will be more flexibility in what business needs to be added.
When Minsheng Company has its own special service promotion platform, as long as the business expanded in the future is for all users, it can carry out extensive information sharing under the same platform, so that multiple businesses can promote and integrate each other.
Wei Minsheng nodded appreciatively and agreed to Liu Mengling's work plan and authorized her to handle the matter with full authority.
Then he said to everyone: "Since the work idea has been straightened out, everyone will operate according to the pattern just set."
Before the official operation, those procedures that should be completed should be completed in time. β
Liu Mengling: They directly shared some of the work.
In the process, Wei Minsheng still sat in front of the computer, looked at the report on the screen about the environmental hazards of e-waste, and then searched for some information.
Half an hour later, Wei Minsheng said to everyone again: "I just checked some information and found that the current technology for electronic waste treatment has been very perfect, some advanced equipment has been able to achieve 97% recycling rate, and in the end less than 3% of the garbage that cannot be recycled."
But why hasn't the same recycling plant been set up in China? Most of the existing e-waste dismantling sites and distribution centers are using 19th-century technology to treat 21st-century waste, and such primitive treatment methods have caused extremely serious ecological consequences to the local area.
Some data have also carried out some research and analysis on this, and it is also proposed to pass legislation to require manufacturers of electronic products to be responsible for the recycling of relevant electronic waste, but why do such serious environmental pollution incidents still exist in large numbers?
Even if you use the law to stipulate that manufacturers of electronic products must establish corresponding recycling channels, or even give some government subsidies, why are these channels not smooth?
Some merchants have launched some trade-in sales methods in accordance with the requirements of the law, but now the Internet is so developed that the prices of various goods are almost transparent.
The price of your trade-in goods is much more expensive than similar goods, basically the so-called depreciation expenses are calculated, and you are not stupid, you can see through this trade-in disguise with a little search on the Internet.
After reading the analysis of these materials, I feel that they do not grasp the essence of the problem, and I think the root of all problems is cost. β
"Cost?"
"Yes, the cost.
Including labor costs, resource costs, transportation costs and processing costs, it is these costs that together increase the cost of e-waste disposal in China.
Since this cost of disposal cannot be passed on, manufacturers and distributors will not be able to do it, because the more this e-waste is recycled, the higher the disposal cost they will have to pay, which is definitely a factor that must be considered for manufacturers whose profit margins are already extremely narrow.
So there is that kind of sales under the guise of trade-in, the purpose is to tell the relevant departments, you see, we are responsible enterprises and dealers, and give a fee of 100 or 200 yuan to recycle the garbage that is only worth a few tens of dollars in the scrapyard.
We have expressed our sincerity to attach great importance to the environment, but the people are still unwilling to send those waste household appliances to us, this is not our problem, we have tried our best.
Of course, there are also some people who don't know the truth and don't know the twists and turns in this, so they handed over the waste electrical appliances at home to them in a daze, and then bought a new electrical appliance at a high price.
And what will the merchants do with these things?
Don't be naΓ―ve, who will be responsible for the freight and disposal costs when it is sent to the designated garbage treatment plant? It's better to sell directly to those garbage stations, anyway, these things are equivalent to picking up, and selling them is a profit. β
Liu Mengling and the others looked at each other, if it weren't for Wei Minsheng's straightforward words, I really didn't know that there were so many twists and turns in this.
Wei Minsheng took a sip of tea, and then said: "But this is not over, what will those garbage stations do with this electronic waste?"
It will definitely not be sent to those qualified e-waste disposal sites, because if you send these e-waste there, not only will you not receive the money for collecting waste, but you will also have to pay for the shipping and garbage disposal fees.
As a result, the e-waste is diverted to some remote e-waste dismantling sites, and only here can the e-waste reflect some value.
These dismantling yards, which used 19th-century processing methods, used the most primitive means to remove components that they considered valuable, and used concentrated acids to extract precious metals, and there was no interest in the parts that required more complex processes to be recycled.
Because the cost of extracting these parts is higher than the selling price, and the most important parts are already in hand, these thankless things become garbage.
Of course, they can't send such garbage to a professional garbage disposal site, or because of the disposal fee.
The high cost of disposal was simpler than digging a pit and burying it, so they didn't think that burying it directly into the ground would cause almost irreversible damage to groundwater and soil. β
Liu Mengling and the others listened to Wei Minsheng's words, and they were heartbroken one by one, and they all spoke out to condemn those unscrupulous merchants and practitioners in the dismantling field, but how can such a thing be solved by condemnation.
If the condemnation is useful, what else do you need the police and the relevant departments to do?