I bought new appliances and new furniture, where will the original appliances and furniture go? Nine departments including the Ministry of Commerce recently jointly issued the "Notice on Improving the Recycling System for Waste Home Appliances and Furniture and Other Renewable Resources" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") to improve the recycling system for waste home appliances and furniture, smooth the recycling of renewable resources, and promote the formation of green production and life. Way.
The "Notice" gives clear goals: by 2025, build a number of typical cities nationwide with recycling systems for waste household appliances and furniture and other renewable resources, cultivate a number of leading recycling companies, promote a number of typical experience models, and form a number of policies and regulations Standards, the national recycling volume of waste household appliances and furniture has increased by more than 15% compared with 2023, and the level of standardized recycling of waste household appliances and furniture has improved significantly.
"my country's home appliance market has moved from the 'incremental era' to the 'incremental and inventory equal emphasis era'. Data show that in 2023, the number of major categories of home appliances in my country will exceed 3 billion units, and every 100 residents will have more than 100 air conditioners, refrigerators, and TVs. Hundreds of units, and some home appliances have been used for a long time, so there is great demand and potential for replacement." He Yadong, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce a few days ago.
According to the person in charge of the Circulation Development Department of the Ministry of Commerce, improving the recycling system of renewable resources such as used household appliances and furniture will help improve the convenience of replacing old household appliances and furniture with new ones, release the consumption potential of household appliances and furniture renewal, and is of great significance in promoting the formation of green production and lifestyle. The "Notice" puts forward specific work tasks in four aspects: improving the recycling network, cultivating recycling entities, innovating recycling models, and standardizing recycling behaviors.
The planning and layout of the recycling network will be more complete. All localities will rationally plan recycling networks, strengthen the construction of community recycling outlets, and unblock recycling channels for public institutions. We will solidly advance the construction of a quarter-hour convenient living area and set up temporary storage points for used household appliances and furniture. Regularly organize renewable resource recycling companies and home appliance and furniture sales companies to come to collect waste home appliances and furniture, and facilitate the entry and exit of recycling vehicles. Encourage qualified residential communities to use idle houses to set up temporary storage places for household appliances, furniture and other renewable resources to facilitate residents' decoration and moving.
More diversified and large-scale recycling entities will emerge. Relevant departments encourage recycling enterprises to improve their organization through chain operations, agreement cooperation, etc., promote the formation of a group of leading enterprises in the recycling industry, and strengthen the guidance of relatively dispersed front-end recycling entities. Support the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the home appliance and furniture industry chain, and actively promote supply chain innovation and application demonstration construction. Guide recycling companies to link up with home appliance and furniture brand companies to set up waste home appliance storage and transportation yards and furniture recycling center warehouses to improve the scale and intensification level of waste home appliance and furniture recycling.
In terms of exploring innovative recycling models, "Internet + recycling" will be developed. Support recycling companies to carry out "online reservations and offline recycling" with the help of relevant information platforms, mobile applications, etc. Support recycling enterprises with good reputation, excellent services and large scale to sign cooperation agreements with districts and counties, extend the recycling network to residential areas, and gradually realize the direct door-to-door recycling of used household appliances and furniture by formal enterprises. Support various regions to promote flexible recycling models such as "vehicle-to-warehouse" based on local conditions, guide recycling companies' mobile recycling vehicles to enter streets and communities in a "fixed-point, timed" manner to collect waste household appliances and furniture, unify service standards, and realize the realization of waste household appliances and furniture Pick up and go.
How to standardize the treatment of used household appliances after recycling? The "Notice" requires that recycling companies be urged to operate in compliance with the law, strengthen information registration and ledger management in the import and export process, and sell used household appliances to legal and compliant dismantling companies. Standardize the dismantling of used household appliances and improve the recycling level of steel, plastic, glass and other renewable resources in used household appliances. Dispose of used furniture in a timely and harmless manner to reduce the risk of environmental pollution. Standardize the circulation order of second-hand home appliances and furniture, give full play to the professional advantages of second-hand circulation enterprises in acquisition, appraisal, and evaluation, and expand the scale of second-hand home appliance and furniture transactions and leasing. Encourage the development of "Internet +" second-hand methods, promote online trading platforms to establish and improve trading rules for used home appliances and furniture with second-hand circulation value, use big data analysis and other means to track the flow, and promote the smooth flow of second-hand transactions.
The person in charge of the Circulation Development Department of the Ministry of Commerce said that the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments and local governments to focus on the following work: first, strengthen the construction of standards, speed up the formulation and revision of a series of standards such as waste household appliance recycling specifications and valuation evaluation rules; second, strengthen the guarantee of factors , Make good use of various existing policy tools to support the construction of a recycling system for waste household appliances and furniture and other renewable resources; third, carry out publicity and promotion, popularize energy conservation and emission reduction knowledge, and spread green and low-carbon concepts.