1 kg of waste foam may not even 1 yuan were sold out, combined with low density, bulky, a 'freight cars' filled not make much, so even waste collection 'guerrillas' were quite good.
Therefore, these large-volume waste foams often cannot enter the recyclable trash can, can only be squeezed into the dry trash can or lying on the side of the barrel, and finally only the way out.
However, in the Fengxian District of Shanghai, is becoming obsolete foam 'baby' up. Eyes of the residents of this worthless trash, after sorting, granulation, processing, actually suddenly become foreign market demand of decorative items and handicrafts The 'worth' is approaching 20,000 yuan/ton, which has increased by a dozen times.
Cut 2 million trees a year
In Fengxian District, Shanghai, waste foam, or pieces or pieces, from all communities and units were thrown into a foam compressor.
After strong extrusion and high-temperature hot melt, every 90 tons of waste foam is 'concentrated' into 1 ton of renewable foam. At the same time, the 'value' of waste foam has also been transformed, which can be priced at five or six thousand yuan per ton. Sales to downstream disposal companies.
Every 90 tons of waste foam plastic 'concentrated' into 1 ton of renewable foam, hardness and quality have improved several grades!
However, waste foam is not just the 'worth'. When discarded foam is transformed into a variety of beautiful frames, frames, frames, and a variety of 'marble' and 'solid wood' decorative lines, its value can also be approximated. Quadruple.
Do you feel that these gorgeous decorations have nothing to do with foam?
'This is what recycled foam has become.' Assistant General Manager Jiang Hongfang said that the recycled foam obtained after the upstream unit 'concentration' can be further processed into polystyrene (PS) particles, which are processed and assembled. Can become the above products that do not see a trace of foam.
Shanghai Yingke Industrial Co., Ltd. is a company specializing in the production of luxury decorations with waste foam. According to General Manager Jiang Hongfang, Inco currently has companies or bases in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Zibo, Zhenjiang and Lu'an. In recent years, 50,000 tons of foam plastics have been recycled and converted into 1.2 million boxes of decorative frames.
These lines pass through the surface film, which can show the texture of marble or solid wood, and have better waterproof performance, thus replacing marble or solid wood as a raw material product. Jiang Hongfang calculated the account, assuming that the 1.2 million boxes of decorative lines All use foam plastic instead of solid wood, and nearly 2 million trees will be cut down in one year.
However, domestic raw materials are not easily available.
The reporter learned from the Fengxian District Appearance and Environmental Sanitation Management Institute that the recycling chain of waste foams like Nanqiao Town is very rare in Shanghai.
Jiang Hongfang also admits that the current renewable foam used by Inco as a raw material is only a small part of Nanqiao Town, and most of it still depends on imports.
Apparently there are discarded foams on the streets, but companies choose to import them abroad!
Huang Jianguang of the Fengxian District Appearance and Environmental Sanitation Management Office admitted that the underlying disease is at the source classification. At present, apart from Nanqiao Town, many communities and units in Fengxian have not separated foam plastics as separate species, and foams are often combined with other dry garbage. Wet rubbish (disposable foam tableware and food thrown together in a wet trash can) is mixed and contaminated.
The polystyrene particles obtained in this way have low purity, low use and no value. In the case of Inch, which is at the end of the industrial chain, does not need such low quality products. The rough processing units in the middle will not take the risk of losing money to add 'concentration'. Equipment, the source of the collection unit has no incentive to sort out these waste foam.
Jiang Hongfang said that as a local Chinese company, due to the consideration of logistics costs and other factors, it is naturally desirable to directly draw materials and turn waste plastics produced by surrounding communities and units into treasure.
With the introduction of the 'foreign garbage' ban in China, the import market for renewable foams has been affected, and the share of imports has tightened. The company’s desire to draw materials is becoming more urgent. According to reports, only Shanghai Yingke’s annual regeneration Sales of foam-related products reached more than 200 million yuan.
It is understood that Shanghai Fengxian is advancing the planning of the “one town and one” decoration garbage centralized sorting site, and will use the Nanqiao Town as a model to construct 12 sites, and absorb the decoration garbage generated by the surrounding communities and units. Considering the foam plastic Increasingly tight, these 12 venues are likely to introduce 'concentrated' equipment, becoming one of Inco's raw material bases.
Considering that it is not yet possible to accurately measure the production of stable renewable foams, some sorting sites are worried about the cost and are afraid to invest in 'concentrated' equipment. Fengxian District is expected to introduce relevant procurement subsidy policies, and wait until the future market operation is stable and mature. The department gradually reduced the intervention and returned the recycling industry of foam to the 'market hand'.
The finer the classification, the higher the value
'啥? Is this foam plastic?' Peng Cailin is the administrator of the temporary garbage dump of Fengxian Greenland Future Center. When he saw the foam photo frame taken by the reporter, he couldn't believe it. After learning the truth, He said happily: 'If the people know that such a good thing is changed from the foam thrown by their own family, and they are still exported to foreign countries, then the classification of garbage is more active!'
Xu Zhi, director of the Environmental Sanitation Management Division of the Municipal Greening and Municipality Bureau, said that relying on law and morality to force the public to do a good job of sorting garbage is actually an external force, and let everyone see the value and significance of garbage sorting. The identification of garbage sorting is a kind of internal force push. The photo frame that turns foam into an export is the internal force.
More importantly, this shift tells the public a 'hard truth': Garbage can also be valuable, and the more detailed the classification, the cleaner, the wider the use, the higher the value.
However, for a very small number of 'indifferent people', the fact that 'foam plastics change to photo frames' has nothing to do with them. In the matter of garbage sorting, they are still indifferent. For the foam plastics to have a good way, the Fengxian Greenland Future Center has started. Field 'Battle'.
The reporter saw in the center's property, the center and two communities near the center: Wanghai Xindu, Miaoyu New Village, if there are residents or units to be renovated, the specific construction unit and related construction personnel must file and pay a deposit. If found by a public probe or administrator, some constructors do not classify and place large pieces of waste such as foam, floor, sofa, mattress, etc. within designated areas during the specified opening hours (6 to 17:00). Once will be warned, the second will be rejected, three times will be deducted from the deposit, or even cut the power limit or refuse construction workers into the community, the center.
Peng Cailin told reporters that since the implementation of the property regulations, only a very small number of construction units have been 'hard-hard', but once the deposit has been deducted, the garbage will be sorted and not thrown away. It is not classified. And this is exactly foam and other The first step in the journey of recycling 'rebirth'.