China News Service, Hefei, June 9 (Reporter Wu Lan) "Post-80s" Xing Wei graduated from a 985 college, and after 10 years working in a state-owned enterprise, he resigned to create a one-stop recycling company "convenience man" for household waste. The entrepreneurial road of "Broken King".
Xing Wei said that the prepared trucks are used to collect and transport the waste products at regular and fixed points 1 to 2 times a week in advance, which has covered 230 communities in Shushan District. Photo by Wu Lan
IT people test waste water recycling
Xing Wei, who graduated from an elite school of electronics and communications engineering, entered a state-owned enterprise in the communications industry in 2004 and became an IT professional.
Xing Wei introduced that when the idea of starting a business started in 2014, it was a period when "Internet+" was particularly hot, and many industries were trying to innovate. After a detailed investigation with the partners, they agreed that the environmental protection field will usher in an entrepreneurial "outlet" and decided to enter the "Internet + renewable resources recovery" entrepreneurial field.
In 2015, Xing Wei and his partners took the 800,000 yuan gathered together and formally established a waste recycling company called "Convenience Man".
"The name was originally used because the recycling of waste products requires door-to-door visits, street walks, and recycling of valuable items from the residents' homes to make room for life and turn waste into treasure, which is very chivalrous. "Xing Wei said that when he created the "small goal" of "Convenience Man", he wanted to create a standardized service model, create a brand image that was different from the past, and change the "colored glasses" of waste recycling in traditional thinking. Re-set the industry benchmark.
Residents nearby will send the waste to the Honggang community sorting station for waste sorting in Shushan District, Hefei City. Photo by Wu Lan
The initial path of entrepreneurship is not easy
When he first started his own business, Xing Wei, who was in his early thirties, was full of confidence, thinking of injecting Internet and information thinking into waste recycling, directly to the C end of waste recycling to ordinary users. "Convenience Man" has opened an online appointment function. Once the user's order is received, there will be someone to sort and recycle plastic bottles, old home appliances, metal and other recyclables and harmful garbage.
"Recalling the early stage of starting a business, it is not easy to walk along the way." Xing Wei said, "When the project was first promoted, the service radius was not limited, and the manpower was not enough, because adherence to the environmental protection proposition of "recycling a bottle", sometimes The appointment location is far away, and even need to run from the city center to Binhu to complete the order."
"Some residents find it troublesome to make appointments, some residents don't make appointments on the Internet, and some can't come home in time due to concentrated appointment time." Xing Wei said that even though he had ridden three rounds with his partners and bundled waste paper together, they sorted together. After a variety of waste plastics and metals, but the initial performance is average, only a few hundred kilograms of waste can be recovered a day.
After many years of adherence to the environmental protection concept, Xing Wei has received market recognition and investment from professional investment institutions. After receiving 3 million yuan of capital injection, he began to upgrade the service model. At present, it mainly adopts three online and offline linkage service modes, namely fixed-point collection point delivery, online reservation, and vehicle door-to-door service, for intensive management and operation.
Hazardous materials are released separately. Photo by Wu Lan
Environmental protection concept upgrade meets opportunities
In the past two years, many pioneer areas have begun to implement waste classification management. With the gradual improvement of the public's awareness of saving green and environmental protection, Xing Wei anticipates a new wave of development opportunities.
In 2019, Shushan District, Hefei City threw an olive branch to "Convenience Man".
It is understood that the district was the first to launch the "Alipay + Garbage Sorting" intelligent recycling platform in Hefei at that time. After cooperating with "Convenience Man", the platform booking form will be provided by "Convenience Man" to provide door-to-door services and complete the subsequent secondary sorting , Thereby connecting the entire chain of "online + offline" waste recycling services.
Xing Wei said: "The on-site service solves the'last 200 meters' of home waste recycling, reflecting the convenience of anytime, anywhere, especially for young people who work during the day and elderly people with inconvenience. This service has been covered in Shushan District. 75 communities. In addition, we have added a regular and fixed-point trading function. The prepared carts will be used to collect and transport waste products one to two times a week in advance. This covers 230 communities in the district."
On the 9th, in the Kangxin Mingjia Community in Shushan District, Hefei City, there was an environmental sanitation garbage classification collection station. Residents will throw the divided garbage to the designated entrance. For the unfamiliar classification projects, there are on-site staff to provide guidance.
Wu Song, the head of the preparatory group of the Waste Disposal Supervision Center of the Urban Management Bureau of Shushan District, Hefei City, said that Shushan District has taken the lead in setting up waste sorting community sorting stations in Anhui Province. Currently, 20 waste sorting community sorting stations have been built. The "network" integration of renewable resource recycling companies such as "Xia" has gradually formed a closed-loop operation of leveling and classification, and jointly explored a new model of urban garbage classification.