Smart recycling equipment: throw away the garbage and get cash
Residents use a smart garbage sorting and recycling device. Photo by Cao Li, Xinhua News Agency
"If you put cardboard boxes and plastic bottles at home into it, you can exchange them for cash directly." Li Qiang, a resident of Chengxiang community in Jiaxiang County, Jining city, Shandong province, experiences a "garbage for cash" experience on Feb 26.
Li Qiang registered a wechat mini program account associated with a smart waste recycling device, one sweep, one point, one vote. Within moments, his cardboard boxes and plastic bottles had been exchanged for 1.08 yuan.
Reporter saw at the scene, residents only need to use their mobile phones to scan the two-dimensional code on the touch screen of the smart garbage recycling equipment, select the garbage release port, wait for the door to slowly open the garbage into, and click the delivery button. The screen then displays the weight of the item and the exchange amount, and finally click the end of the delivery button, and the exchange amount will enter the residents' personal account.
How does "garbage for cash" work? How is garbage sorted automatically? Chengxiang community staff told reporters that the smart waste recycling equipment has built-in sensors and radio frequency identification tags, which can realize automatic identification and classification of garbage and reduce the probability of wrong classification. The smart waste recycling equipment can collect and analyze waste generation and sorting data to provide decision support for city managers.
"Previously, the recyclable waste was thrown directly into the recyclable trash can in the community. In fact, I also know that you can pay for recycling, but I always find it very troublesome." Zhang Xiaona, a resident of Chengxiang community, said that since the community has this smart garbage recycling device, residents can throw recyclable garbage at any time, which is very convenient.
At the same time of the introduction of advanced equipment, Jiaxiang County also launched carbon points exchange activities for personal accounts through wechat mini programs. Residents can exchange carbon credits for community services.
The staff of the relevant departments in Jiaxiang County said that the next step of the county will actively carry out the publicity campaign of "intelligent recycling" service to cover all households, so that residents can fully enjoy the convenience brought by intelligent waste recycling equipment.