In recent years, the number of domestic mobile phones has continued to increase. The reporter noted that with the change of consumption concept, old for new, second-hand consumption has become the choice of more consumers, and the mobile phone recycling market is gradually heating up.
Trade-in services are favored The mobile phone recycling market is heating up
In an electronic product offline store, the reporter saw that many consumers came to buy new mobile phones that had just been listed, and most people would choose to recycle old mobile phones while buying new machines.
The store manager told reporters that the proportion of customers who choose to trade in with the old in the store is more than 70%. There are also many consumers who send idle mobile phones for recycling.
He Lei, manager of a consumer electronics store in Beijing: The mobile phone update speed is relatively fast, and now many mobile phones produce high-value old-for-new, our old-for-new service has been listed since December last year, and the monthly recycling volume is basically in a doubling trend.
The reporter visited and found that recycling and replacement business has become the standard in the mobile phone industry. At the same time, the online model has developed rapidly, the official websites of major e-commerce platforms and mobile phone manufacturers have access to the second-hand mobile phone recycling and replacement business, and the combination of online and offline models such as online valuation and door-to-door recycling has also greatly improved the recovery rate.
Industry data estimates that the number of mobile phones in the mainland has reached 1.856 billion in 2021. The amount of waste mobile phones generated and idle is increasing year by year. It is estimated that the total amount of idle during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period will reach 6 billion units.
Insufficient recycling of mobile phone dismantling enterprises faces the dilemma of cost inversion
The reporter learned that due to the high quality requirements of mobile phones in the field of second-hand mobile phone circulation, in the total amount of recycling, about 20%-30% of mobile phones with short listing time and good functions can enter the sales link of second-hand mobile phones. What kind of treatment will the remaining waste mobile phones be treated? What is the current development of related industries?
This is a mobile phone dismantling workshop in Chengdu, Sichuan, after recycling, some mobile phones with low value will enter the dismantling production line for disassembly classification, and the annual mobile phone dismantling volume of this company is about 2 million units.
Although the amount of waste mobile phones is increasing year by year, enterprises are facing the dilemma of insufficient recycling. The annual dismantling volume of the seven production lines in the factory can reach 30 million units, and only one has been opened so far, which is far from meeting expectations. On the one hand, the cost of environmental protection, equipment investment and hazardous waste treatment is relatively high; at the same time, according to regulations, regular dismantling enterprises can only dismantle, can not repair, the profit margin is small, and the enterprise can not offer high prices when acquiring.
Wang Hui, head of the mobile phone project of an environmental protection technology company: The advantages of participating in market competition are not obvious, the amount is relatively small, and the value of the final product is lower than our disposal cost, so now we are in the situation of recovering a loss.
In addition, Wang Hui told reporters that mobile phone dismantling material can basically be used 100%, and professional enterprises can extract at least 50,000 yuan of copper, tin, silver, gold and other metals with a total value of about 50,000 yuan from a ton of waste mobile phones. Nevertheless, due to the limited source of recycling, 90% of their materials currently come from corporate customers, and most of the orders are required to be destroyed for intellectual property protection reasons, and the residual value is very low. The deep processing business is also facing the problem of cost inversion, and some projects even have to suspend production.
Wang Huawen, director of the New Industry Division of an environmental protection technology company: Some materials have changed very much, and have not been refined for two or three years, such as the price of indium mentioned in the screen has dropped from the peak of seven pieces more than one gram to almost one more gram, the cost of less refining is higher, if we continue to produce and refine, our loss will expand.
Industry insiders said that at present, the recycling rate of waste mobile phone resources in the mainland is only about 4%. Less than 30% of the new idle mobile phones enter the formal recycling field every year, that is to say, more than 70% of the mobile phones are still idle in the user's home, or they have been disposed of in an environmentally friendly and non-compliant manner, and the flow cannot be monitored, resulting in a waste of resources.
(CCTV Finance)