"Recycle old cell phones, replace old phones with stainless steel basins, replace old phones with kitchen knives..." At rural or town markets, people usually set up stalls to recycle old cell phones for $5 to $20 each, or choose stainless steel basins or kitchen knives. But almost all the stalls are piled up with outdated button machines or elderly machines, so what's the point of getting them back? If you change the stainless steel basin and knife, will it be bought? If you don't change it, what should you do? Where do these vendors profit?
Mobile phone replacement trend to pay dividends
Since 2009, smart phones have begun to enter the Chinese market widely, and after 2010, the models and styles of Chinese mobile phones have undergone qualitative changes, ushering in a new development trend. With the popularity of smart phones in China, more and more users choose to use mobile phone software to handle some daily affairs. As a result, a smartphone called "Xiaomi" turned out. Functions and usage experience have been upgraded, and small screens and inconvenient button machines have also been replaced.
After being phased out by users, button machines are usually provided to the elderly at home. Older people don't need other fancy features and only need a mobile phone to answer the phone. Ordinary Chinese are more nostalgic, even if some things are no longer needed, they will not be thrown away immediately, and like to use it as a souvenir. Therefore, many people will buy one for their own use. But with the passage of time, some of these button machines have been unable to meet the needs of the elderly. A large number of button machines have been eliminated, and many people can sniff out business opportunities and start recycling old mobile phones. Start from scratch, buy a tricycle, wholesale some stainless steel basins, and then call the village like a waste collector.
Where is the used mobile phone market?
Retrofitting of old machines
Now many of the old computers on the market are button machines, as long as the sound is loud, the sensitivity is high, the battery is durable, and the structure is simple. But these elderly machines are generally larger, heavier and less suitable for the elderly; and now many young people like to play games with mobile phones, so they are not satisfied with the needs of the elderly. This makes it very difficult for the elderly population to purchase an elderly machine. The consumer group of the elderly machine is not very large, so few manufacturers do the mass production of new mobile phones, basically using waste mobile phone modifications, replacement systems, can be sold to 180 yuan. If you look at the older machines on the market, a lot of them look like the imitators we've seen before, and they feel like plastic.
In recent years, there are also many recycling vendors who keep pace with the times, recycling smart phones, replacing smartphones faster and the market scale is larger. Today's smartphones are already a huge and complex system. It can implement various functions, such as taking photos, voice calls, etc., and can also query and download information through the Internet, and even some other functions. However, of the 200 million mobile phones that Are eliminated in China every year, push-button phones still account for a large part.
Elderly machines
Component reuse
When the fuselage was intact, many button machines were eliminated, but the internal motherboard, battery, and other components were still working. If you want to take your phone apart and reassemble it. Then disassemble it and then install the new parts. This saves time and increases efficiency. After disassembly. Only one accessory needs to be replaced. You can take the parts apart and take them out as part of a refurbished machine. Refurbished pushbuttons certainly don't have a market in China, but they can be exported in large quantities to areas with underdeveloped networks, such as South Africa, the Middle East and Laos. For most people in these parts of the world, internet access is a luxury, and being able to answer calls and text normally is a good thing.
Mobile phone parts
Mining of heavy metals
Phones, like batteries, contain heavy metals that cannot be discarded. When these heavy metals enter water and soil, they become pollutants, but when they grow up, they also become currency. The data shows that about 35% of the weight of each phone comes from heavy metal materials, of which gold is the most valuable. According to a survey by the China Renewable Resources Recycling Association, 10 waste mobile phones can extract 1 gram of gold, and 1 ton of waste mobile phones can produce 200 grams. At a gold price of 300 yuan / ton, gold extracted from a mobile phone can be sold to 60,000 yuan / ton, if the recovery cost of 10 yuan / ton is deducted, 2,000 mobile phones can have a net profit of nearly 40,000 yuan 300. In the mobile phone industry, there is a relatively special group: producers of metal mobile phones. Metal phones are a very valuable resource. Stainless steel basin exchange profit will be higher.
On top of that, the plastic of the phone case and the glass of the phone screen can be sold again to make a considerable profit.
Recycling process for old phones
Buying old cell phones from people, buying them in the countryside, then sending them to the town, and then to the county, all at the recycling station.
Then the phone is tested on the model, the degree of newness, the degree of damage, etc., and the classification is carried out one by one. If there is no problem, it is simply discarded, and if a problem is found, it is redesigned to process or replace the accessory. If you find that there is a hidden quality hazard, you can notify the relevant departments in the first time. Shell and function perfect to do a class, shell function is not normal to do a class, shell damage seriously do a class, shell and parts scrap to do a class. Each of these steps is then performed according to the characteristics of each type. If they are smart machines, they will be sorted by brand, and the recycling center will disassemble them to break them down and sort them according to their value. Finally, the recalled mobile phone will be shipped to Huaqiang South, what can be sold, what can be changed, neither can be sold, nor can it be dismantled, and no material will be wasted.
Many mobile phone brands now have their own dedicated recycling centers, which can usually be found on the phone's official website. If you buy a new phone, you can find details about it through this website. You can also choose different brands of mobile phones to replace or upgrade according to your needs. This not only saves costs. It also increases efficiency. Recycling from the same brand of mobile phones translates into purchase subsidies, and when you buy from the same brand of mobile phones, it can bring you better treatment.
Of course, when recycling the mobile phone, you also need to pay attention to whether the mobile phone contains personal information. Whether it's resale or recycling, as long as the phone is not in your hands, your personal information will be emptied. If it is a mobile phone for personal use, it will generate a lot of private information. This private information not only contains important content such as personal identity authentication and authentication, but also includes the connection between individuals and others. Privacy breaches can be very dangerous if they are maliciously stolen.
The recycling industry has broad prospects
Whether it is waste recycling or mobile phone recycling, the recycling industry has a lot of profit margins, which seems inappropriate, but Lightning Brother believes that they are already ahead of the times.
Look at our planet, full of garbage, pollution, plastic products in the oceans, heavy metals seeping into the soil, the loss of forest vegetation, and global warming. The reuse of renewable resources is the general trend of human development and takes the road of sustainable development. The problem we are facing now is that with the growth of population and rapid economic development, human beings are consuming more and more natural resources. According to experts, by the middle of the 21st century, more than 1/4 of the world's land will be covered by garbage. Then, in order to solve the problem of trillions of tons of waste generated every year, the recycling industry and recycling industry in the mainland will inevitably reach a higher level in the future.
Nowadays, the recycling industry has entered the "Internet +" model, and in recent years, mobile phone recycling industry websites, APP, and offline recycling websites have sprung up. The mobile phone recycling platform can be classified according to the needs of users, and there are special recycling personnel to provide professional services to users. At present, the domestic mobile phone recycling market size is about 30 billion yuan. Mobile phone recycling will enter a new era. With transparent recycling prices and fast recycling speeds, china's Chinese button machines will disappear in the future, and mobile phone recycling stalls in rural areas and markets will also disappear, replaced by full online recycling.