#精品长文创作季#
As a post-80s and post-90s generation, an important source of pocket money when I was a child was selling beer bottles. I believe this is also a good memory of many friends from their childhood, that kind of green beer bottle is money in the eyes of many people.
When I was a child, especially in the summer, when the adults had dinner and drank at night, we would stay at the table.
Wait for the next day, go as soon as the morning comes, take the beer bottle that was drunk last night to the waste collection place, 2 cents a bottle.
Sometimes, if the scale of the family dinner is relatively large, we can harvest more than a dozen bottles early the next morning, several yuan of income, at that time, the spicy noodles at that time only cost a dime, wahaha a dollar a bottle.
In the blink of an eye, the beer bottle left over from last night became a bottle of wahaha and a few spicy strips, and at that time I felt that life was so good, and I seemed to have become the richest man in the world. But why are beer bottles now being thrown away as garbage, and why aren't breweries recycling?
1. Why don't breweries recycle beer bottles?
Reduce and save costs. The world is bustling, all for profit. Both recycled and non-recycled beer bottles are inherently cost-saving.
In the early years, the level of productivity on the mainland was low, the manufacturing industry was underdeveloped, and the manufacture of a beer bottle required refining the glass to a certain temperature before molding it. At that time, the mainland did not have such advanced manufacturing machines and technologies.
At that time, the production and molding of glass bottles needed to be carried out manually, so the production efficiency was very low, and the cost of manufacturing a beer bottle was much higher than the cost of recycling a beer bottle.
Therefore, in this case, breweries have chosen to recycle used beer bottles from consumers at a price of 2 cents each, which can achieve the goal of recycling and reduce the production cost of beer.
However, with the economic and social development of the mainland, the social productivity of the mainland has made rapid progress, especially the manufacturing industry in the mainland has changed from what it used to be, and glass manufacturing has also been mechanized, and only one or two people need to control the machine to make it.
By this time, the cost has been greatly reduced, and the cost of producing a beer bottle is much lower than the combined cost of recycling a beer bottle and transporting it back to the factory.
Especially now we have an obvious feeling that "overcapacity", simply put, the production of living materials is much higher than our current consumption capacity, and our consumption level cannot consume so many means of production.
In this case, the brewery already has a lot of beer that is not sold out, and there are a large number of new beer bottles that are not used, and then they choose to recycle the old beer bottles for use, they naturally have no incentive to do so.
So fundamentally speaking, the disappearance of the mainland's beer bottle recycling industry is due to the rapid development of the mainland's manufacturing industry, and now Made in China has become a shining business card in the world, which makes people proud.
The people's living standards have improved. When we were kids, we felt like we were a great rich man with two cents in our hands, because for two cents we could buy a piece of bubble gum and a spicy strip, and the spicy strip could be torn into many small strips.
At that time, whoever had a spicy strip in his hand was the object of worship of the whole village.
But look at it now, don't talk about two cents for today's children, if you give him 20 yuan, he thinks why are you so picky, only 20 yuan is enough for something, and if you give 200, he may feel that it is not enough to spend.
Moreover, in the 80s and 90s of the last century and the beginning of the new century, the income level of the people on the mainland was generally low, and many people's monthly wages were only a few dozen yuan, and some of them could earn a few hundred yuan.
Therefore, under this premise, we can only save money, and I believe that we have all heard more or less about the bitter days in the mouths of the elderly at home. So even a two-cent beer bottle is still a precious hate, and if you don't want to throw it away, you must sell it.
But now when we look at it, let alone the cities, even in the countryside, the waste collectors are almost invisible. The familiar shouts of "collect the rags" when walking through the streets and alleys have not been seen for many years.
Because our current income level and living standard are no longer as good as the income from collecting scrap products for one or two cents, then this industry will naturally lose the meaning of its existence.
Hygiene and wellness have become people's new pursuits
People say that "Yajia is elegant", what does it mean? That is to say, after solving the problem of food and clothing, people began to pursue an elegant quality of life, and no longer stuck to food and clothing.
What we can see now is that we have bid farewell to the era of insufficient food and clothing in our daily diet, and we have begun to pursue a healthy and hygienic lifestyle.
Since opening up, the mainland's productive forces have risen rapidly, and the people's living standards have also improved by leaps and bounds. I don't know if middle-aged friends have such a feeling, that is, when we were children, even if we broke a bowl, we would be beaten by our parents.
But now, even if 10 bowls are broken, my parents will only say, be careful, don't get hurt, next time be careful, the reason why this happens is because our living standards have improved and material resources are abundant.
When we were young, we may have had a few bowls at home, reused year after year, but now almost every household has to change a set of chopsticks every year, and some families even use chopsticks for cleanliness and hygiene.
So now we don't look down on the dime we get from selling beer bottles, we also pursue health and hygiene, if you use the beer bottled to bottle new beer, it is estimated that many consumers will not buy it, and even think that this manufacturer is extremely unhygienic.
A few days ago, the news that a staff member of a certain distillery peed in beer was on the hot search, causing the distillery to lose a lot of money at once, which is enough to reflect the mainland people's pursuit of healthy and hygienic food.
This year's 315 party made starch sausages and plum cabbage buckle pork rice suddenly exposed to the public, and countless starch factory stalls closed down overnight, and a large number of starch sausage manufacturing factories publicly issued statements, saying that there was no problem with their products.
It can be seen that today, health and hygiene have become an important social concern. Now, if any brewery takes recycled beer bottles to consumers, it is estimated that it will be directly scolded to the point of closure.
Even after high-temperature disinfection and sterilization, there will still be some bacteria remaining. And today, if we drink our own wine in the future, the bottle has been drunk by others, even if the taste is fine, we will not like it from the bottom of our hearts.
More new packaging products are emerging. Our current aesthetics are no longer the level of good taste before, and now more and more people are beginning to pay attention to the appearance of products.
Some people even shouted that appearance is justice, and in this case, the green and ugly beer bottle has become more and more unpleasant.
A large number of canned beers, and even bottles of different colors and shapes, are being produced, and in this case, more consumers are choosing canned beer or bottled beer that is simple and easy to use.
After all, no one can have a corkscrew at home anytime and anywhere like they once did. Therefore, canned beer quickly occupied the market, and there were many more beer bottles in the past, and recycling it can only increase the burden on the brewery.
For consumers, canned beer is difficult to recycle. And many friends with children at home are also afraid that the children at home will break the bottle, so they will choose more bottled beer that is safe to break than bottled beer.
After all, who hasn't had their hands scratched by glass like a beer bottle as a kid? With canned beer, you don't have to worry about this problem anymore, which is an important reason why there are fewer and fewer bottled beers.
2. How to dispose of finished beer bottles
Now although no one recycles beer bottles, the harm of glass products in this province is still relatively large, and the natural corrosion of glass products in nature disappears for a long time, and a little carelessness will hurt people.
So for us, although no one recycles beer bottles now, we can't throw them away at will, and now big cities have begun to implement garbage sorting, after all, garbage is a misplaced resource.
Therefore, for friends in the city, it can be classified and safely placed in a reasonable place, waiting for the sanitation workers to take it away, and for friends in the countryside, although the people who collect waste products are now collected, but it is not completely gone.
So you can also wait for the people who come to collect the scrap to come, sell them for a few dollars, and if you don't like these few dollars, you can also give them to the scrap collectors. But don't mess around, because there are fewer ways to collect garbage in rural areas, so there is a greater chance of hurting people.
In fact, if there is a pair of skillful hands in the colorful beer bottles, they can be turned into beautiful handicrafts by placing or making, especially now that there are many kinds of beer bottles, all kinds of colors and shapes.
When we go to the bar, we can see a wall of wine bottles, and our own small wine cabinet can be decorated with beer bottles of different colors. It is also beautiful to add a beautiful landscape to our home.
III. Conclusion
Although we now find that there are many reasons for the gradual disappearance of the beer bottle recycling industry, the most fundamental reason we can see is that the mainland's productivity is now making rapid progress and people's living standards are rapidly improving.
We have now changed from "can we eat well" to "can we eat well", from "can we wear warmth" to "can we wear beauty". So in fact, the disappearance of the recycling beer bottle industry is in a sense a cause for joy
Although we no longer need to live the bitter life of tightening clothes and food in the past, the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift of the Chinese nation still cannot be discarded. For discarded beer bottles, we still need to put them where they belong, save resources, starting with me.