In recent years, the number of mobile phones in China has been increasing. The reporter noted that with the change of consumption concept, the old for new and second-hand consumption have become the choice of more consumers, and the mobile phone recycling market is gradually heating up.
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mobile phone recycling market is heating up
In an offline store of electronic products, the reporter saw that many consumers come to buy new mobile phones that have just been listed, and most people will choose to recycle old mobile phones while buying new ones.
The store manager told reporters that at present, the proportion of customers who choose to exchange old for new in the store has exceeded 70%. Many consumers also send idle mobile phones for recycling.
he Lei, the store manager of a consumer electronics store in Beijing: mobile phones are updated rapidly. Now many mobile phones produce high-value old for new. Our old for new service has been on the market since December last year. The recovery of monthly is basically doubling
The reporter found that recycling and renewal business has become the standard configuration of the mobile phone industry . At the same time, online mode has developed rapidly. The official websites of major e-commerce platforms and mobile phone manufacturers have access to the second mobile phone recycling and renewal business and the Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) combination modes such as online valuation and door-to-door recycling have also greatly improved the recovery rate.
According to industry data, the social ownership of mobile phones in China has reached 1.856 billion in 2021. The production and idle volume of waste mobile phones are increasing year by year it is estimated that the total number of idle units will reach 6 billion during the 14th Five Year Plan period
mobile phone dismantling enterprise recycling insufficient
facing the dilemma of cost inversion
The reporter learned that due to the high requirements for mobile phone quality in the field of second mobile phone circulation, about 20% – 30% of the mobile phones with short listing time and good functions can enter the second mobile phone sales link in the total recycling amount. What will be done with the remaining used mobile phones? What is the current development of related industries?
This is a mobile phone disassembly workshop in Chengdu, Sichuan. After recycling, some mobile phones with low overall value will enter the disassembly production line for disassembly and classification. At present, the annual disassembly volume of this enterprise is about 2 million mobile phones.
although the amount of used mobile phones increases year by year, enterprises are facing the dilemma of insufficient recycling . The annual dismantling capacity of the seven production lines of the factory can reach 30 million units. At present, only one production line has been opened, which is far from reaching the expectation. On the one hand, the costs of environmental protection, equipment investment and hazardous waste treatment are high; At the same time, according to the regulations, formal dismantling enterprises can only dismantle and cannot repair, with small profit space, and enterprises can not offer high prices during acquisition.
Wang Hui, the mobile phone project leader of an environmental protection technology company: has no obvious advantage in participating in market competition, the quantity is relatively small, and the value of the final product is lower than our disposal cost, so now we are in the situation of recycling one and losing one
In addition, Wang Hui told reporters that mobile phone disassembles can basically be used 100%. , professional enterprises can extract at least copper, tin, silver, gold and other metals with a total value of about 50000 yuan from a ton of waste mobile phones. Nevertheless, due to the limited recycling sources, 90% of their materials are from enterprise customers. For the sake of intellectual property protection, most orders are required to be destroyed, and the residual value is very low deep processing business also faces the problem of cost inversion, and some projects even have to suspend production
Wang Huawen, director of Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd(300832) Business Department of an environmental protection technology company: some materials have changed greatly and have not been refined for two or three years. For example, the price of indium mentioned in the screen has dropped from the peak of more than seven yuan to almost more than one yuan. The cost of refining is higher if we continue to produce and refine, our loss will increase.
Industry insiders said that at present, the recycling rate of waste mobile phone resources in China is only about 4%. Less than 30% of the newly added idle mobile phones enter the formal recycling field every year, that is, more than 70% of the mobile phones are still idle in the user’s home, or have been disposed of in an environmentally-friendly and non-compliance manner, and there is no way to monitor the flow, resulting in a waste of resources.
