The rise of nanometers

Tuocheng, Haojiang District.

The scale of Guang'ao Port Area increased from 50,000 tons throughput to 300,000 tons at the end of November this year.

This port is a collaboration between Blue Times, United Group, Beijing Enterprises Group, and Tuocheng Port Group, and will serve as the only international waste import port in the Chaoshan region.

The first phase has a throughput of 300,000 tons, and the second phase of the port area currently under construction has a throughput of 1.2 million tons.

The reason why the international port in Longhu District is not used is because the Suiren Department does not want to cooperate with Hutchison Whampoa and deliberately places the port area where international waste is imported in Guang'ao Port Area.

The excuse is also very easy to find. Blue Era used the reason that imported waste may pose safety risks, and rejected the designated location plan at Longfor International Port. It was replaced by the Guangao Port Area in Haojiang District, which has a relatively small population and is relatively easy to control.

After the completion and acceptance of the first phase project of Guang'ao Port Area.

Zhang Rongji finally took advantage of his busy schedule and brought people over for inspection.

The manager of the Blue Era Tuocheng Branch was still Du Tai from the beginning, and he also came to the port together.

Standing on the control building of the port area, through the floor-to-ceiling windows, one can overlook the entire Guang'ao Port area. Zhang Rongji picked up his telescope and scanned the infrastructure of the entire port area.

Guang'ao Port Area is different from ordinary ports. At this time, a container ship with tens of thousands of tons is anchored in the unloading area of ​​the port.

The crane lifts the containers off the ship one by one.

Generally speaking, there are usually two situations when unloading cargo at ordinary ports: either it is directly hoisted and unloaded on a tractor-trailer truck, or it is temporarily stored in a storage area in the port area.

The unloading process in Guang'ao Port is somewhat different.

I saw a crane placing the containers on a platform. The platform was modified from a train chassis and could directly place 5 containers.

The container was pulled into the factory building in the port area by the train. This is a comprehensive disinfection area. After passing the comprehensive disinfection area, the train entered the container inspection area.

Staff members wearing full-body protective suits and gas helmets, like chemical defense soldiers, operate various testing equipment to conduct comprehensive inspections of the interior of the container.

The reason for such strict precautions is that there are a lot of harmful things hidden in the waste. These are toxic treasures. If relevant preventive measures are not taken, harmful substances, viruses, bacteria and invasive species may be introduced.

"Butou, there is a data anomaly in container No. 3. The scan shows that there is a lot of liquid. Open it and take a look."

The young man wearing a helmet opened the door of the container and found that it was a box of compressed abandoned cars with liquid seeping out of it.

"Brother Li, the battery has ruptured and electrolyte seeped out."

"Which company is it from?"

"Originally produced by Salas Company in California, USA, purchased from Jinli Recycling Company."

"Put it on their file."

"clear."

Since the ore market is controlled by China, the international waste market has also been greatly affected.

The most intuitive situation is that the profit margins of ordinary recycling manufacturers have plummeted. Unless they have the recycling technology of the three major environmental protection groups, they may lose money at any time.

Tuocheng's Global Waste Management Center will issue waste export share licenses to various regions and companies around the world.

The share of each region is limited, and the types of waste are strictly limited. If the customs declaration list does not match the actual waste, it will be punished by the management center.

Due to the global waste recycling industry, only a few regions are currently doing it, and it is completely a buyer's market.

In the past, the world's waste disposal methods either buried the waste on site; or secretly discharged it into the ocean like the Japanese did; or found a backward area and let it be recycled.

But the current situation has undergone very big changes, that is, in the raw material market, China has become a big variable, and the price of ore has become very stable. It is better to purchase sintered sand from China than to import waste.

The only place in the world where waste can be recycled at low cost is in China. There is no other place in the world.

This situation has caused backward regions around the world to lose part of their competitiveness in the recycling industry. Unless it is waste that can barely be reused, backward regions will take it back, clean it, repair it, and reuse it.

And those wastes that do not have secondary uses, such as plastic bags, waste newspapers, waste cars and waste electronic products, if sent to backward areas, will only be able to extract some precious metals. It is difficult to make money from other wastes. .

Just like waste newspapers, a backward Southeast Asian country imported waste newspapers and used them to produce recycled paper. The problem is that their own market cannot consume so much recycled paper and can only export it.

This raises a question: who is willing to import these recycled paper? Their products are not competitive. International businessmen are not money-splitting boys. They will definitely buy cheap and high-quality Chinese products.

China, which controls raw materials, processing and the world's largest market, can use price fluctuations, just like the four major ABCD grain groups, to crush the recycling industry in other regions.

Tuocheng's global waste management center can further influence the world's raw material markets through quotas and recycling prices, in conjunction with the Dalian Exchange.

At present, in addition to Guang'ao Port Area in Tuocheng, Jieyang and Lufeng have also begun to plan international recycling ports, and comprehensively subdivide and refine the types of imported waste for recycling.

For example, Guang'ao Port Area and Guiyu Town behind it are responsible for electronic waste and electrical waste; Jieyang is responsible for waste paper and plastic; Lufeng is responsible for scrap cars and scrap metal.

The three port areas are all controlled and supervised by Tuocheng's Global Waste Management Center.

Zhang Rongji came to the trading building in Guang'ao Port District. There were many domestic and foreign recyclers, large and small companies, all trading and negotiating.

"Mr. Du, how can domestic recyclers, apart from big environmental protection groups like you, make money by the small and medium-sized recyclers?"

Hearing Zhang Rongji's question, Du Tai smiled and replied: "They mainly do preliminary sorting and precious metal refining, but now they use outsourcing."

After being regulated and rectified, many recyclers in Guiyu Town have now formed recycling companies and recycling cooperatives, and small family workshops have basically disappeared.

A recycling cooperative is a recycling company formed by a coalition of small workshops.

Currently, there are only 137 legally registered recycling companies left in Guiyu and nearby towns. These small businesses do not have complete qualifications themselves, so they collect the decomposed circuit boards and the like, and when the quantity is reached, they send them to Go to the recycling plants of Blue Age, United Group, and Beijing Enterprises Group.

After being sent to the recycling factory, there are generally two options. One is to sell it directly to the three environmental giants, and the other is to only need precious metals, but the recycling factory will take a 20% discount.

Many companies choose the second option because recycling factories to extract precious metals is safer than refining them themselves, and the cost is lower.

The 20% discount charge is actually not high. If they do the refining themselves and meet environmental standards, the cost will be as high as 70 to 80%. For simple refining that does not meet environmental protection, the cost will also be 30 to 40%, and they have to be sneaky and Harm the body.

Therefore, after the industrial transformation, various recyclers focus more on channels and primary sorting. The real upstream recycling is done by the three environmental giants.

Now the recycling industry is rapidly segmenting, and domestic recyclers are also transforming and facing the world.