Li Yingfeng
According to data from the Fire and Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China, a total of 252,000 fires were reported in 2020, with 1,183 deaths and a direct property loss of 4.009 billion yuan.
Among them, the proportion of fires caused by electrical appliances remains high, reaching 85,000 in the whole year, accounting for 33.6% of the total number of fires in the year, and it is the largest cause of fires.
Dong Mingzhu, deputy to the National People's Congress, suggested that we should speed up the elimination of overdue home appliances in the market, protect people's lives and property safety, and effectively achieve energy conservation and consumption reduction.
The National Development and Reform Commission said in its reply to the proposal that the next step will be to speed up the elimination of home appliances that are out of service, strengthen the promotion of trade-in, and provide special subsidies for green home appliances.
The fire data caused by electrical appliances directly point to the problem of overdue service of home appliances and the recycling of waste home appliances in my country.
my country is a big consumer of home appliances and a big producer of used home appliances. A large number of traditional home appliances have entered the threshold of scrapping or overdue service.
If the old home appliances are in service for a long time, it will not only bring great safety and health risks, but also increase energy consumption such as electricity; if the old home appliances do not enter the formal recycling and disposal system, it will reduce the efficiency of resource recycling and easily cause environmental damage. Pollution.
It is very necessary to speed up the elimination of overdue home appliances and increase the proportion of standard recycling and disposal of waste home appliances.
At the beginning of 2020, the China Household Electrical Appliances Association issued a series of standards for the "safety service life of household appliances", which identified the safe service life of household refrigerators and air conditioners as 10 years, and the safe service life of household washing machines, range hoods and household gas stoves as 8 years.
However, in the past, the standards set by the Chinese home appliance industry for the service life of home appliances were not clear. Many families advocated frugality and adhered to the concept of using them when they could be used, so that the actual service life of a large number of home appliances was as high as ten or even twenty years.
In view of this, the government, the media, and the household appliance industry should strengthen the education of consumers on the "safety concept" of household appliances through various forms, so that consumers can know the safe service life of each household appliance, and guide consumers to replace them in a timely manner on a voluntary basis. Appliances in service.
Manufacturers and sellers of home appliances should also establish a tracking and warning system for each home appliance and every consumer, starting from the date of manufacture or sale of the home appliance, record the progress of the safe service life of the home appliance in detail, and record the progress of the safe service life of the home appliance when the relevant type of home appliance is approaching. At the end of the safe service life, consumers are warned.
On the basis of educating and guiding consumers to enhance their awareness of safe use of home appliances, the formal recycling mechanism for home appliances should be further optimized, so that the "regular army" can have enough to eat and consumers can get convenience and benefits.
At present, individual vendors of home appliance recycling occupy the initiative in the recycling market. The reason why many families are willing to sell waste home appliances to individual vendors is mainly because the recycling price of individual vendors is higher, and individual vendors come to recycle, which can save sellers. many things.
In this regard, the government and home appliance production and recycling companies should respond effectively.
In 2012, my country established a waste electrical and electronic product disposal fund. However, due to the huge accumulation of waste electrical appliances, the actual scrapped amount is much larger than the estimated scrapped amount. There is still a big gap in the coverage of the fund. Does not appear attractive.
The government can appropriately increase the fund payment standard of electrical appliance enterprises, and provide support to the fund through subsidies, increase the coverage of the fund for the household appliance recycling chain, and increase the price of the "regular army" recycling household appliances.
In addition, the government can also inject power into the household appliance recycling chain through preferential policies such as taxation and loans.
Home appliance production, recycling companies and e-commerce platforms should actively expand the recycling path of home appliances, increase recycling outlets, and make full use of trade-in, sale of new and old, and door-to-door recycling, etc., to provide the public with the convenience of disposing of used home appliances.
Relevant enterprises can also explore the establishment of a joint recycling mechanism and include individual traders in the recycling cooperation mechanism.
The government can also consider the construction of waste home appliance recycling points in the garbage classification work.
Promoting the green recycling of waste household appliances should be considered a "big account" of social benefits.
All parties concerned with environmental protection, safety assurance, energy saving and consumption reduction, and resource reuse should pay more attention to public welfare and long-term accounts, take more responsibilities, and implement relevant measures, which can promote the standardized, safe and green recycling of waste household appliances. It can answer the question of "where should the used appliances go".