Today, many people replace mobile phones more and more frequently, and out of the old mobile phones can also be used, how to deal with it has become a problem.Reporter interviewed found that many people now will be able to use the phone, through trade-in Sold out. Dealers to the old cell phone recycling, will be resold to customers in need.
Beijing Zhongguancun Electronics Mall mobile phone dealers: We will have customers ask if there is no second-hand mobile phones, cheap, and some will sell them.
The reporters in Zhejiang, Shanxi and Guangxi survey found that many mobile phone dealers, and even convenience stores, but also have a direct recovery of the old cell phone business.
Shanxi Shuozhou convenience store: a cell phone for a small basin.
CCTV Reporter: pots, knives, ax can change is right?
Shanxi Shuozhou convenience store: ah can change.
CCTV Reporter: Do you take back the recycling (original) factory, or how?
Nanning, Guangxi Apple phone an authorized franchise clerk: No, give the kind of second-hand mobile phone sales, back to the factory official certainly do not accept it, who still charge you this machine right?
Whether old or new direct recycling, where are these old phones go? Reporters found that some users in order to map cheaper, will take the initiative to buy second-hand mobile phones continue to use, and even some will be re-dismantling mobile phone, assembly, be as Refurbished machine resale.
Jinhua, Zhejiang, a mobile phone market maintenance staff: microphones, handset, camera these can also be reused. No water has not damaged too can be used.
In addition, there are also some enterprises that reclaim their mobile phones through the internet platform, and they can get the price just by inputting the cell phone model, appearance, etc. However, these enterprises are only intermediaries, where the recovered cell phones eventually go, and the staff members do not clear.
An Nanning, Guangxi network mobile phone recycling platform staff: to help the factory recycling, the factory over there to do we do not know.
Some personal traders specialized in recycling cell phones revealed some clues to reporters.
Nanning, Guangxi second-hand mobile phone acquirer: sent to Shenzhen to be e-waste. Anyway, we did not recover us to use, someone came to close.
CCTV Reporter: Someone comes to collect with you, take that (main) board to refine, how much gold does it contain in one ton?
Shanxi mobile phone dealers: back to the factory head, and some inside there are gold, and some things, software, what ...
According to these traders said, scrap phones have gold, it is not a good thing to extract it? But the fact is not so simple.
Dr Ma Datong: a ton of mobile phone can extract 150 grams of gold, then what is the concept? The world's best gold mine, a ton of ore can only extract about 50 grams of gold , The phone's gold content is several times higher than the highest quality gold mine.
Bonanza! 1 ton of cell phone can extract 150 grams of gold
There is no doubt that the waste cell phone is a huge mine.But the current mobile phone recycling industry's biggest problem is the lack of formal recycling companies.Recent research on this issue of Tsinghua University professor Wen Zongguo: waste cell phones are indeed rich ore, but the phone recycling Compared with the price of recycling old mobile phones is not profitable.In 2016, mobile phones have been included in the "disposal of waste electrical and electronic products directory," but the specific details have not yet introduced.
Wen Zongguo, director of the Research Center for Circular Economy Industry, Tsinghua University School of Environment: It can not earn any money without subsidies. Therefore, these more powerful formal recycling and dismantling enterprises are not motivated and motivated. Good formal enterprises can not get up and small The workshop is popular.
Pollution! Small workshop to deal with polluting atmospheric water
Small workshop-style treatment of the environment will cause pollution.It is understood that in the South some cities along the coast, there are small workshops with the so-called pickling alchemy they burn the circuit board, then these metals dissolved in the king Water, and then gradually precipitated copper, silver, gold, palladium and other precious metals.This approach to the pollution of the atmosphere and water sources, one can imagine the statistics show that at present only less than 2% of mobile phones, is formal Recycled channels.
Mr. Shi, Shanxi mobile phone dealer: It is hoped that the state and the phone company manufacturers introduced relevant policies, so that this second-hand phone has a good place to go.
Recycling of used mobile phones urgently need the rules of the country
Faced with this situation, many people in the industry also said: In developed countries, cell phones who produce, who recycling, who handle the practice.And in our country, business habits of consumer cell phone recycling has not yet formed, the state should be as soon as possible Issued for scrap mobile phone dismantling subsidies to deal with the rules.
According to the current laws and regulations, there is no domestic enterprise to obtain official formal dismantling qualification.To this end, the parties called for the government should as soon as possible to determine the old cell phone recycling business qualification and strengthen supervision.