With the improvement of living standards, the frequency of people replacing furniture is also increasing, but while replacing furniture, how to deal with old furniture has become a problem.
Recyclers are unwilling to collect them, and residents do not know how to deal with it.
Especially now it is summer, and it is the peak season for decoration. For many landlords, tenants and merchants, how to deal with bulky old furniture is really a headache.
Beijing: Nobody charges 600 yuan for disposal of waste furniture
Mr. Li, who lives in Chaoyang District, Beijing, needed to clean up a batch of used furniture because of the rent of the house. He took pictures of the furniture and uploaded it to the second-hand trading platform to resell it. However, a few days passed and his furniture has not been sold.
Seeing that the lease term was approaching, Mr. Li had to pay a door-to-door fee of more than 600 yuan to ask someone to remove the furniture.
Consumer Mr. Li: Xianyu's furniture recycling only recycles wardrobes, and they don't want TV cabinets. The biggest problem is that large pieces of furniture like this can't be thrown away at garbage stations or anywhere.
Like this kind of furniture recycling, I think that they can be recycled and sold again, so they won't charge us again.
Unexpectedly, the recycling and disassembly fee for this kind of thing is also included.
At present, spending money to dispose of used furniture is difficult for many citizens to accept.
But it is getting harder and harder to dispose of used furniture without spending money.
The reporter interviewed some citizens randomly and found that this problem has bothered many people.
Beijing citizen: It may have been a gift in the past few years. In the past two years, I really feel a headache. I don't know where to throw it. I don't let it go downstairs. The waste collection is also divided into things. If it is not good enough, he basically doesn't want it.
Beijing citizen: I don’t know how to throw it away if it is too large. I am not inclined to spend money to dispose of it.
The reporter learned from the staff of some community properties that the garbage collectors in the community can only recycle domestic garbage, and the bulky garbage usually needs to be removed and transported by the owners themselves. At present, many communities have set up large-scale garbage for throwing waste furniture. Temporary storage point, but it is not free, and some oversized furniture cannot be recycled.
The person in charge of the bulky garbage temporary storage point in Beijing Lanyuan Community: It is not free to store. Sofas and mattresses are all 50. The wooden cabinets can be free of money. I have to pay people if I pull it over.
Reporter: Are you moving upstairs for me?
The person in charge of the temporary storage site for bulky garbage in Lanyuan Community, Beijing: I can’t move upstairs, just take away the money.
Shanghai: Set up a temporary collection point for waste furniture in the community
Not only in Beijing, in recent years, how to deal with idle furniture in homes has gradually become a thorny issue that plagues people.
In some streets in Shanghai where garbage classification was first implemented, there were garbage transfer stations dedicated to the collection of large pieces of furniture, and many communities also set up small collection points for waste furniture.
Many residents have reported that almost no one has bought old furniture in recent years, so they can only spend money to ask someone to come to collect it.
Most residents still choose to throw them at the large furniture collection point in the community, and the property finds someone to collect it.
According to the residents' guidelines, the reporter found a large garbage transfer station nearby and found that it was piled up with large pieces of furniture such as mattresses and sofas, which looked very shabby.
Then a sanitation worker from a nearby community pulled a cart of old furniture here.
According to the staff, there is almost a small recycling point in the nearby communities to place waste furniture for free. The sanitation staff of the community pulls the waste furniture here and registers it, and then the environmental protection department conducts a unified recycling process.
Waste large pieces of furniture become "hot potato" recycling vendors lose money and are unwilling to collect
Why are small vendors who used to recycle large pieces of furniture reluctant to recycle old furniture now?
If you need to pay for processing, what is the current door-to-door cost of the agent throwing company?
In addition, what channels are there to deal with large pieces of furniture?
Zhang Shichao has been in a waste recycling business in a residential area in Beijing for more than ten years. In the past two or three years, he has felt that second-hand furniture has become more and more difficult to sell, and the recycling requirements have become higher and higher. For example, he only recycles the entire set of sofas. No cushion will work.
Another recycler also said that sometimes it is necessary to hire someone to hire a car to carry large pieces of furniture. The turnover is slow, and it takes up space and pays rent, which is not cost-effective.
Compared with large pieces of furniture, he is more willing to recycle electrical products.
When second-hand furniture has become a "hot potato", more and more consumers are looking for paid delivery services.
In one of the small programs for booking large-size garbage disposal services on the Internet, the reporter found that it takes about 100 yuan to recycle a double mattress, and a three-door wardrobe with a width and height of about 2 meters. If there is an elevator, it is estimated The price is about 400 yuan.
Residents need to reverse the old concept of low recycling value of waste furniture
In order to solve the problem of bulky waste disposal, in 2018, the entire process operation of bulky waste input, collection, transportation and disposal was realized in Haidian District, Beijing.
Where will these recycled furniture be shipped, how will they be disposed of, and what is the value of recycling?
At present, 29 such bulky garbage recycling transfer stations have been built in Haidian District, achieving 100% coverage of 29 streets.
Residents can either choose to pay for door-to-door recycling services through related small programs, or they can put unnecessary discarded furniture at the corresponding transfer station on the street for free.
Zhao Ji, Director of the Office of the Material Recycling Center of Beijing’s Haidian District: At present, residents are free of charge unless they make appointments to dispose of bulky garbage. All of them are handled by the government. The company advances the funds and the government pays us. Carry out related subsidies.
CCTV reporters followed a transport vehicle at the transfer station to the renewable resource sorting center in Hanjiachuan, Haidian.
In one of the workshops, the reporter saw that several staff members carried discarded sofas, mattresses and other furniture onto the machine for cutting and shredding.
According to the person in charge, the shredded wood, shredded fabric, and shredded sponge produced after crushing are usually sold to foreign manufacturers for energy utilization such as thermal power generation.
In order to further improve the utilization efficiency of renewable resources, many furniture also need to be manually dismantled.
Last year, the processing center produced about 500 tons of steel scrap, about 2,000 tons of waste wood, and about 70 tons of waste sponge.
Break through the bottleneck of recycling and solve the problem of furniture recycling
At present, the competent government departments of many provinces and cities across the country are exploring the establishment of a recycling and processing system for bulky garbage.
In fact, the key to the disposal of waste furniture is how to mobilize the enthusiasm of participants in the recycling system.
For consumers, it is necessary for them to have both the will and channels to easily hand over the waste furniture; for the disposal enterprises, appropriate policy encouragement and financial support must be given.
Multi-party linkages, through the bottleneck of recycling, can solve the problem of recycling and disposal of waste furniture.