Jellyfish reported that the group headed by Mao, through negotiations with 15 owners of used plastic bottles in Yantai City, negotiated and established WeChat groups, issued intimidation within the group, threatened speech, video, intercepted, beaten and discarded plastic bottle delivery people and Seeking troubles and other means to control the recycling price of waste plastic bottles in Yantai City, and collecting management fees from the owners, seriously affecting the recycling of waste plastic bottles in the market order.
The report shows that Mao intends to unify and depress the recycling price of plastic bottles throughout Yantai. Mao has called a meeting of responsible persons of waste plastic bottles recycling enterprises, requiring all enterprises to reduce the recycling price by 4 cents per catty, and require each company to pay monthly. 3000 yuan protection fee.
For those enterprises that do not obey the management, or are suspected of private price increases, Mao has gathered people to look for troubles, smashing items, and injuring people. The suppliers who supply the recycling companies have not escaped Mao’s 'black hand'. Some suppliers were beaten and even forced to pay the so-called 'fines'. Mao will beat people and collect the 'fines' video to the WeChat group, shocking the recycling companies.
Currently, the case is being further processed.
Why does the 'black hand' reach out to the waste plastic bottle?
Since China's policy of tightening and importing waste, the approval and import volume of waste plastics have gradually declined. After the “Import Waste Management Catalogue” is adjusted again, the import of waste plastics will become a history at the end of 2018. After the reduction of imports, the supply of domestic waste plastics appears to be in short supply. The price quickly rose.
According to the China Renewable Resources Recycling Industry Development Report (2018), due to the shortage of the waste plastics market, the price of waste plastics continued to rise in 2017. The total value of domestic waste plastics recycling reached 108.1 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9% over 2016.
According to incomplete statistics, from the middle of July 2017 to the end of December 2017, the price of recycled PET rose by more than 1,000 yuan per ton, PVC, PP, PE also rose to varying degrees. The price rose, the profit increased, which made the enterprise, Personal enthusiasm for the recycling of waste plastics, including plastic bottles, has greatly improved.
Shandong Province is one of the main areas for recycling and processing of waste plastics in China. According to the Shandong Provincial Economic and Information Committee, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Environmental Protection Department in January 2018, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environmental Protection jointly issued the "Promoting Key Enterprises to Pilot and Build Waste Plastics". The Opinions on Recycling System, Shandong will encourage, guide and support the province's standardized recycling of waste plastics in terms of policy and finance. Waste plastic recycling has ushered in major development opportunities.
We have reason to believe that behind a certain series of criminal activities, Mao saw the opportunity to draw benefits from waste plastic bottles.
The relevant official institutions in Shandong Province, as well as the media including Jellyfish Net, Jiaodong Online, etc., did not disclose the case too much. Who is Mao? Why should he lower the recycling price of plastic bottles in Yantai City? We are not allowed And know. According to the existing facts, Xiaobian made the following conjectures on Mao’s intention:
As we all know, under the dual pressure of shrinking import of waste plastics and domestic environmental protection, the market of plastic recycling in China is changing: When the supply of goods is in short supply, the market gradually turns from the buyer's market to the seller's market, and the seller's bargaining power is greatly enhanced.
Mao violently lowered the recycling price of used plastic bottles, perhaps intending to dominate and distribute the right to speak, or perhaps to increase the cost difference between the wool and recycled materials. However, it is possible that only Mao felt that it could be scrapped. Plastic recycling companies are here to extract some benefits.
Conclusion
The recycling of waste products lasted for several decades, and tens of millions of people floated in this vast river and lake. Waste plastics, waste paper, scrap steel and other items close to ordinary people's lives made this river and lake full of breath. Hope Yantai's event It is an example, it is an accidental event.
At the same time, it also maps out that China's plastic recycling industry, which is mainly based on scavengers and waste recycling stations, has many unsound, non-standard problems, and even many unsafe factors. China's plastic recycling system needs to be built, and the interests of recycling companies are also Need protection.