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Coconut is a relatively common and popular fruit in life, it not only has cool and delicious coconut water, but also coconut meat can be eaten, but after eating, coconut shells are usually thrown away as garbage.
However, in Indonesia, coconut shells are actually regarded as treasures, and even Indonesians earn extra money through the development and use of coconut shells, and now they have built a relatively complete industrial chain.
So how do Indonesians recycle coconut shells, and can the mainland follow Indonesia's example?
The main reason why Indonesia is able to process coconut shells is because the country is rich in coconuts and has unique resource conditions, according to Indonesian official data, the annual production of coconut in Indonesia is about 16 million to 18 million tons.
But at the same time, Indonesia is also facing another very difficult problem, that is, how to deal with a large number of coconut shells?
According to the weight of coconut shells accounting for about 13% of the whole coconut, the annual accumulation of coconut shells can reach more than 2 million tons, if it is thrown away, it is a pity, and it will also occupy a large land area.
If it burns down, it can solve the problem of occupying space, but it will lead to a large amount of carbon dioxide emissions, increase the greenhouse effect, and also bring a lot of unnecessary losses.
In order to dispose of domestic coconut shells, Indonesia has also developed a related industrial chain and realized the idea of turning coconut shells into treasure.
For example, the fibers on the surface of coconut shells can be used as raw materials for various woven products, such as hemp rope after processing.
Then there is the coconut shell, which is regarded as garbage, and Indonesians will make it into various handicrafts or derivatives and sell them to countries around the world.
The process production can not be carried out, or the broken coconut shell is used to process charcoal, this practice is believed to open the eyes of many people, after all, the charcoal used in our daily life is made of wood, and we have never seen charcoal made of coconut shell.
In fact, this technology originated in India, and there was an Indian brother who made coconut shell charcoal through personal research and invention.
Later, a technology company took a fancy to this market prospect, so it chose to cooperate with the Indian brother and invest in large-scale production.
On the other hand, the production process of coconut shell charcoal is not very difficult, it needs to undergo carbonization pyrolysis, under normal circumstances, one ton of coconut shell can produce about 300kg of coconut shell charcoal, and the conversion rate is about 30%.
On this basis, it can be further purified to produce activated carbon, the output of activated carbon is relatively low, and a ton of coconut shell can only produce more than 100kg of activated carbon.
Don't look at the production and conversion rate is not high, but you must know that the cost of coconut shells is also very low, usually just need transportation costs, the most important thing in Indonesia is the waste coconut shells, there is no need to worry about the price of raw materials rising or the supply is not enough.
Because of this, Indonesia's coconut shell charcoal production can form an industrial chain, and the output of coconut shell charcoal and activated carbon Indonesia will export it and sell it to Europe and the United States and other countries, so that it can earn a lot of dollars.
In addition to these, Indonesians have also developed the value of coconut to the extreme, they will distinguish between old coconut and green coconut, the old coconut coconut coconut water is not delicious, but the coconut meat is abundant, can be used to squeeze coconut oil or make coconut wine.
In addition, coconut meat and coconut water can also be used to make coconut sugar and other related foods, and it can be said that this small coconut feeds many Indonesians.
Through the full use of coconuts in Indonesia, it can be seen that coconuts can not only be sold as fruits, but also develop many derivatives, provide a large number of local employment opportunities, and drive more industrial development.
The reason is very simple, that is, the continental climate conditions are diverse, and the latitude span is relatively wide.
There are only a handful of places that are really suitable for planting coconut trees, and only Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi are rich in coconuts, and other areas cannot be promoted because of unsatisfactory climatic conditions.
This also means that the industrial chain related to coconut can only be built in the region, but even so, the mainland can also choose to further process coconut, after all, the total annual output of coconut in the mainland is about 1.5 million tons.
If we can make full use of it, it can also create greater economic benefits for the local area in the future, but in the process of imitation, we must combine the actual situation and conform to our national conditions, rather than blindly imitating.
Of course, this also gives us a new development idea, since coconut shells can be turned into treasure, is it not some other waste or fruit products can also be deeply processed.
For example, in other countries, cellulose can be extracted from durian shells, which can be used to make hydrogel bandages, and the fibers on mango cores can be used to make expensive bags.
These are the discoveries and innovations made by human beings in the process of practice, which have greatly improved the utilization rate of resources, and can be used as a reference for the mainland in the future when taking the road of sustainable development.
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