Chapter 32 The Origin of Plastic Bags
According to the tips of her younger brother Hao Jiaming, Hao Jiali searched all the plastic bags with things in the house, but found no big ones.
When Hao Jiali was about to give up again, Chen Feng proposed: Lili! You go to your uncle's house again and ask your uncle if the production team has bags of urea and nitrogen fertilizer, and if the production team has these bags of fertilizer bought from the city, the problem of going to the paddy field will be solved.
Hao Jiali didn't understand, and hurriedly asked Chen Feng: "Mom! What do you want these nitrogen bags for? I tried it last time, these snakeskin bags got into the water, and it was useless. ”
"I'm not talking about snakeskin bags."
"What kind of bag is that?" Hao Jiali asked Chen Feng.
"It's a plastic bag."
"Plastic bags? Hao Jiali asked Chen Feng rhetorically.
"Yes, the snakeskin bag is the outer packaging of nitrogen fertilizer, and the nitrogen fertilizer must be packaged in two layers, the inner layer of plastic bags, and the outer layer of snakeskin bags, so that it will not melt in the process of transportation in case of water and high temperature."
According to Chen Feng's estimation based on the nitrogen fertilizer bags used in the production team in the past, if the production team did not wash these nitrogen fertilizer plastic bags, remove the inner layer and use the outer layer to hold the soybeans, sorghum, corn and other miscellaneous grains of the production team, then the inner layer of the plastic bags will still be retained, if they are removed and the plastic bags are burned, then there will be none.
Hao Jiali listened to her mother's words and went to her uncle's house without taking a breath.
Chen Qing was busy preparing the votes to be used in the election of the captain of the production team.
Chen Qing consulted Hao Jiali's opinion and said, "Lili! In the past two days, the members of the production team will vote on the list of several members of the new production team leader, and my uncle wants to ask you, which team member do you want to choose to be beneficial to your fish pond next year? ”
Hao Jiali didn't answer Chen Qing, how could Hao Jiali still have this thought at this time, and before Chen Qing finished speaking, Hao Jiali was anxious to ask Chen Qing's mother Chen Feng about the explanation.
"Uncle! I'll talk about this later, but I came today to ask my uncle if there are any plastic bags used by the production team for nitrogen fertilizer on farmland? I wanted to use a plastic bag tied to my legs to catch loaches in the paddy fields, but the water boots didn't work last time. ”
"You mean the plastic bags of the production team?" Chen Qing stopped counting the votes in the mass election.
"Yes, uncle! My mom said our production team had these bags. ”
"Lili! The nitrogen bags of the production team removed the plastic inside and sold them to the commune's plastic purchasing station. Chen Qing thought for a moment before saying.
"Sold the acquisition station?" Hao Jiali repeated Chen Qing's words.
"Yes, there are more than a dozen brigades in the commune, and there are more than a dozen production teams in one brigade, each production team has to cultivate two quarters of farmland every year, and the uncle of other production teams does not know how much farmland there is, and there is no number in his heart, but the thirteen production teams of our SJ Township Wech Brigade have more than 1,000 acres of farmland, and if a bag of nitrogen fertilizer is applied on a minimum average of 1,000 acres of farmland, there are 2,000 such plastic bags for early and late rice." Chen Qing said as he pinched his fingers and counted.
"So many plastic bags?" Hao Jiali immediately thought of going to the commune acquisition station to buy a few, and it was estimated that it would not be a problem to come back.
Chen Qing replied: "Yes, in the past, the production team used to cut out or tear off these plastic bags every year after applying nitrogen fertilizer to the farmland, because these plastics are useless. ”
"Why are these plastic bags useless? If the production team does not use it, it can be distributed to the team members and taken home to load the grains. Hao Jiali was puzzled.
Chen Qing shook his head: "No, these plastic bags of nitrogen fertilizer are all given to the stevedores of the manufacturer when they leave the factory, and the task is thrown away. ”
Chen Qing also said: "There are only a few forklifts and cranes in the city, and there are almost no such tool trucks in the nitrogen fertilizer plant, and they all rely on manual transportation. ”
"There's always something that's not broken." Hao Jiali said with a glimmer of hope.
"No," Chen Qing sighed and said: "The nitrogen fertilizer factory porters carry nitrogen fertilizer, their hands and shoulders have long been ground out of a thick cocoon like rubber, they are used to this kind of work, and they are accustomed to it, a bag of nitrogen fertilizer on their shoulders is equivalent to carrying a cotton pillow as light, and when they arrive at the pile of goods on the car, in order to save time, they throw the nitrogen fertilizer on their shoulders in the cargo pile from afar, and then stack neatly, some don't even use the yard, one is accurate, so that these nitrogen fertilizers are even in two layers of packaging bags, to the stevedores to make these brute force throwing, and then to the ground or the pile of goods heavy fall, on the spot the nitrogen fertilizer bag of the inner layer burst, the outer layer is not pillow break, pillow rotten on the ground is also frizzy. ”
"Moreover, not only the loading and unloading process damages the plastic bags inside the nitrogen fertilizer, the nitrogen fertilizer is too easy to agglomerate after packaging, and it is large and hard like a stone, the production team buys nitrogen fertilizer from the cooperatives of the commune every time, this way from the manufacturer to load the train to load the car, after the car is loaded into the tractor, and finally the production team uses a board car to buy back from the cooperative with a buffalo, and the nitrogen fertilizer that gets off the car and falls left and right on the way has long been unrecognizable, and none of the plastic bags in the inner layer are intact."
"Also, every time the nitrogen fertilizer is applied to the field, the lump of nitrogen fertilizer is so hard that it is not the shape of a plastic bag when it was packed into the scatter, when the nitrogen fertilizer is transported to the production team, these plastic bags are already a large piece of concave where there is no nitrogen fertilizer, and where there is nitrogen fertilizer, this piece of hard nitrogen fertilizer is in the bag round, square, pointed, deformed with plastic bags, and even like the horns of cattle and sheep penetrate the two layers of protection measures of the fertilizer bag, and the bag is topped to the left eye and the right hole."
Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, not allowing Hao Jiali to interject and come in and speak.
"It's so bad." Hao Jiali lowered her head after speaking.
"Not only that, when the members of the production team go to the field to fertilize, they cut the mouth of the bag, and it really takes a lot of effort to peel the bag out of the horns and patterns of these nitrogen fertilizers.
Hao Jiali raised her head and continued to listen to Chen Qing with an anxious temperament.
"Only the female production team members still have this patience, in addition to the number of bags they need for the production team, they also want to take the outer layer of the fiber bag home to decorate the local products or something, so they will slowly and methodically use the time to peel it little by little, and the male production team members are bold, the male does not say a word, a scissors go down to the nitrogen fertilizer bag how long the outer layer of the bag is how long it is to open a hole, and then the seal at the other end of the bag is also given a pair of scissors, and the nitrogen fertilizer in the bag can be taken out effortlessly."
"Isn't there a plastic film when you take it out?" Hao Jiali was anxious and a little surprised.
"No, all bags are scrapped."
"Why?" Disappointment immediately crept up on Hao Jiali's face.
Chen Qing looked at Hao Jiali's appearance, even if he couldn't bear it, but after breathing a sigh, Chen Qing still told Hao Jiali the truth: "Because these clumped nitrogen fertilizers are powdered so that farmers can catch them in their hands and raise sand and dust in the farmland, if they are not crushed, even if they are scattered in the field in small clusters, the small clumps of nitrogen fertilizer fall on the seedlings, and the seedlings will grow green and dazzling after eating the fertilizer, and those who can't stand it will be burned to death by the clumps of nitrogen fertilizer, because there will be a lot of clumps of nitrogen fertilizer as soon as they melt. The water in the farmland is still and does not flow when there is no shortage of water, except when the arid field is irrigated, but when fertilizing is all applied before the field is filled with water in advance, so this mass of nitrogen fertilizer is always in this place. ”
"And then?" Hao Jiali did not give up.
"Originally, nitrogen fertilizer people bite the skin of spicy people in their hands, but it is conceivable that the seedlings will be burned to death if they are sprinkled too much, on the contrary, they have not fallen to the seedlings of nitrogen fertilizer, these seedlings are so yellow that they are so yellow that it hurts to see, and these seedlings will not produce any millet in the harvest season."
"What will happen?" Hao Jiali asked anxiously.
"So some of the male production team members didn't even bother to put down the scissors, and smashed the nitrogen fertilizer and fertilizer and fiber bags and plastic bags with a hammer, so that the bags were not intact, and if the plastic was picked out of the fertilizer piece by piece, it would be as small as a cut white cloth, and it could no longer be used for other purposes."
Hao Jiali's hopes were dashed.
"In the end, the production team will dig a square pit at the foot of the designated mountain near no thatch, no tea trees, pine trees, and cedar books, fill the pit with half of the pit water, and then throw the rotten and broken plastics into the pit, pour in the kerosene that ignited the fire, light the fire, and then the two production teams will guard the fire and burn the plastics."
"Over the years, this pit has been filled with these melted plastics, these plastics melted from the plastic sheets and cooled into a clump of hard lumps to fill the pit can no longer be filled, and these melted plastics have a big smell, which has caused many opinions and strong protests from the villagers in the pit area at the foot of the mountain, but in addition to this treatment method, the production team does not know where to pile up so much waste plastics, and can only reflect to the commune."
"Uncle! Stop it. Hao Jiali faced the reality.
After Hao Jiali finished speaking, she raised her feet and was about to leave Chen Qing's house, Chen Qing hurriedly grabbed Hao Jiali: "Lili! The leaders of the commune went to the city to contact the manufacturer of plastic bags, and all the waste plastic bags of the production team were sent to the manufacturer of plastic bags by the commune for recycling. ”
"I know uncle, I'll think of other ways." Hao Jiali can only say this.
"Lili! It's too late for you to think about this method, now it is the season when the production team has finished harvesting the rice in the morning and evening, and the farmland does not need to apply any fertilizer, if only this method was available when the grain is planted in the seedling field this spring, and it is just the time for the production team to buy nitrogen fertilizer and prepare. Chen Qing tried in vain to comfort Hao Jiali's discomfort and disappointment.
"It's all right, uncle! I'll figure it out. Hao Jiali replied to Chen Qing with a wry smile.
"Alas! If you tell me earlier, I will prepare in advance, when the production team members fertilize, I have to cut out a few plastic bags that are not better before opening the seal for you, even if these plastic bags have a leakage of the needle hole, you can tie the needle hole with a rope, or go to the commune health center to buy a roll of medical tape to glue the needle hole, and a few more such plastic bags on the legs will work, but now, in addition to the fiber bags that can be used to hold miscellaneous grains, there is a pile in the warehouse, and the plastic bags are not left. Uncle can't help you, you have to figure it out yourself. ”
"Okay!" Hao Jiali didn't say anything, dropped these two words to her uncle and left.