The rise of nanometers

In a hurry, Zhang Rongji inspected the recycling business in Guang'ao Port Area and the Global Waste Management Center before preparing to inspect Jieyang.

In the trading building in Guang'ao Port District.

An endless stream of domestic and foreign businessmen are looking for business opportunities.

Adam Minter, an international recycler who traveled across the ocean from the United States to Tuocheng, is from Minneapolis, the United States, and is the son of a small recycler.

Since 2002, he has been traveling between China and the United States, dealing with many domestic recyclers and witnessing the rise of China.

When he set foot on this land again, he found that it had become so strange and powerful.

Adam saw a familiar face and hurried forward to say hello: "Oh! Raymond, my friend! Very nice to see you."

"Adam, didn't you go to South America?" Li Lei smiled and shook hands with the other party.

Adam pointed his thumb at the large LED scrolling screen behind him and said mockingly: "The global waste management center is all here with you. If I don't come here, there may not even be soup left."

"The market has been really bad recently." Li Lei shook his head and said.

Adam and Li Lei tacitly understood that the so-called bad market situation was actually due to the bad market situation in the international recycling industry. The domestic recycling market in China was still a very good rising industry.

The three environmental giants only deal with sanitation waste, factory waste, farm waste, etc. When it comes to waste recycling in various places, they adopt a dispensable attitude. Anyway, a large part of the waste to be recycled in China must be recycled. Passed the test of the three environmental giants.

Therefore, domestic waste recycling stations and the like still have strong vitality.

Li Lei is a recycler in Shijiao Town, Qingyuan City. He used to specialize in recycling Christmas tree lights and imported an average of 100 tons of discarded Christmas tree lights every year.

Only since the second half of this year has the recycling industry undergone significant changes, such as the rapid introduction of domestic waste management regulations and the strict prohibition of burning garbage, which has had a considerable impact on his recycling factory.

Adam raised his eyebrows slightly: "The price of honey has dropped a lot."

Honey is recycling industry lingo for brass.

Li Lei suddenly asked in a low voice: "Your barley prices have fallen a lot, right? I heard from some old friends in Guiyu that they plan to contract the city's garbage in San Francisco. Have you heard about it?"

Adam was a little scared: "I almost lost money on the barley batch last month. If I hadn't sold it in time, I might have lost 170,000 yuan."

The so-called barley is actually No. 1 copper wire.

In response to Li Lei's other question, Adam nodded: "I heard that two e-waste recyclers in San Francisco went bankrupt and were acquired by them. However, the opposition in San Francisco was very loud."

"As expected." Li Lei spread his hands.

The recyclers in Guiyu Town are trying to enter the United States, which is a microcosm of China's recycling industry entering the international market.

Obviously, the invasion of Guiyu recyclers has aroused concern and resistance from local recyclers in the United States.

Suddenly Adam saw an old acquaintance again and shouted: "Guy! Guy Dumato!"

Guy, who was in a hurry, turned his head in confusion when he heard the shouting, and then showed a surprise expression: "Oh! Adam, you are here too."

The two hugged each other. Guy, who had his hair neatly combed back, showed a hint of joy in meeting an old friend in a foreign country: "It's been terrible lately."

"Did your company suffer a lot of losses?" Adam guessed something.

Guy is the business manager of Omni Resources, one of the world's largest waste recycling companies.

"The prices of scrap iron, scrap copper, and scrap aluminum have dropped by 40 to 50%. The company purchased and stored a large amount of scrap copper and scrap aluminum last year, and we suffered a lot of losses."

"Same." Adam smiled bitterly and scratched his head.

While the three of them were discussing the sudden changes in the international recycling market and people were coming and going in the trading hall, several recyclers from Guiyu also saw Adam, Guy and others.

The trading floor looks chaotic, but is actually divided into several small groups.

A young man among the Guiyu recyclers greeted Guy and Adam in loose English:

"Hello! Guy! Adam!"

"Bruce, you are rich." Guy smiled and stretched out his hand.

After a few minutes of useless pleasantries, Adam suddenly asked: "Bruce, how are you talking with San Francisco?"

Li Shuwei shrugged: "It didn't succeed. They thought our price was too high."

"How much do you want?"

"Not much. The entire urban area of ​​San Francisco only costs 500 million yuan a year." Li Shuwei opened his palms.

"Oh, buy it? 500 million yuan?" Guy exclaimed. Obviously the price frightened him. Even if California attaches great importance to environmental protection, it is difficult to accept the annual municipal waste disposal cost of 500 million yuan.

"I don't think the cost is too high. After all, Beijing Enterprises Group's contract for the city's sanitation business costs 2.8 billion yuan a year. Isn't San Francisco, also an international metropolis, worth 500 million yuan?" Li Shuwei mocked.

Speechless Guy, Adam, speechless about this.

In fact, San Francisco can afford to pay 500 million yuan, but it is unwilling to contract with Guiyu recyclers. There are many companies in the recycling industry in the United States, and these companies naturally exclude Chinese recyclers from entering.

Li Shuwei didn't care too much about not reaching a cooperation: "I hope they won't regret it."

Adam and Guy looked at each other and saw each other's helplessness. At present, the global recycling industry, except for China, has basically entered a state of low profit and loss.

If the Global Waste Management Center in Tuocheng does not license American recyclers or limit their share of waste, they may not be able to process the waste.

The recycling industry is very troubled. Recyclers in the United States usually do not do deep sorting and deep recycling. Instead, they package them all and send them to backward areas.

The problem is that the recycling industry in backward areas is generally unwilling to spend money to buy this garbage after losing its profit driving force.

Originally, American recyclers could make money by selling this garbage to backward areas; now, on the contrary, they have to pay backward areas to process this garbage.

Over and over again, it was a huge loss.

They contract the city's garbage collection. If the garbage is not disposed of, or the disposal is not environmentally friendly, local environmentalists will probably come to the door to unfurl banners.

If we have to comply with local environmental protection standards, the small amount of financial subsidies may not be enough to pay workers' wages.

For these recyclers who are contracted to recycle garbage, the current situation puts them in an embarrassing situation.

This uncomfortable feeling of being controlled by others disgusts all international recyclers, like ants on a hot pot.

While investing in the research and development of efficient recycling technology, we hope to obtain a stable share of exported waste.

Therefore, Guy, Adam and others came to Tuocheng in person, hoping to reach some long-term and stable contracts with local recyclers.

It’s just that Li Shuwei and others are not stupid. In the current situation, except for the three environmental giants who are firmly seated in Diaoyutai, other recyclers dare to sign long-term contracts. A price fluctuation may directly overturn the situation.

Several Guiyu recyclers are only willing to accept immediate CIF prices and are not willing to take long-term contracts.

In addition to American recyclers such as Guy, there are also recyclers from Xizhou Alliance, Japan, and Korea, also in the trading floor.

The core prototype of the world's recycling industry is developing and growing in Tuocheng.