The old-for-new exchange is creating a boom in home appliance consumption
Recently, since the issuance of the Action Plan to promote large-scale equipment Renewal and Consumer goods trade-in, in order to benefit more consumers, local government departments, e-commerce platforms, and brand enterprises are launching various types of trade-in subsidies and preferential activities. Let's look at the report.
The old air conditioner in the home of Shanghai citizen Li Yangjun has been accompanied for many years, and now the cooling and heating function is not as good as before. In the shopping mall through the trade-in preferential policy to buy an order, the same day, home appliance installation staff door-to-door service. The old air conditioner is taken away, and the new one is installed and adjusted.
Shanghai consumer Li Yangjun said: "The old machine dismantling subsidy is 280 yuan, and the purchase of a new machine has a part of the subsidy, coupled with the preferential activities of the shopping mall, the original price of this air conditioner is 5800 yuan, the actual payment is only 3500 yuan. Safety has been guaranteed, but also very convenient and convenient."
Shanghai home appliance replacement staff Wang Lidong said: "Now we average down to a dozen orders a day, this large home appliances like washing machines, air conditioners, TV sets a little more, including the demolition of this aspect are more than a lot more than the previous two months."
This period of time, China's electrical mall is a joint air conditioning, TV, refrigerator and other manufacturers to carry out household appliances joint promotion activities, deeply loved by consumers.
Data show that in the first quarter, the number of smart home appliance trade-in orders increased significantly compared with the same period, especially since March, the trade-in is setting off a boom in home appliance consumption. During the spring home improvement Festival, the sales of intelligent air conditioners increased by more than 150% year on year, and the central air conditioners increased by more than 190%.
The old appliances collected have places
With the release of the action plan for replacing old consumer goods with new ones, various places carry out activities for replacing old ones with new ones, the old appliances collected are classified and stored, and copper, aluminum, plastics, rare metals and so on will re-enter the home appliance manufacturing link.
China produces a large number of electrical and electronic products every year. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the output in 2022 will be 195.78 million color TVS, 86.64 million refrigerators, 91.06 million washing machines, 222.47 million air conditioners, 434.18 million microcomputers and 39.7 million range hoods. The large number of electrical and electronic products, which have entered the phase of elimination, has led to a surge in the amount of e-waste, and it is expected that more than 200 million household appliances will be scrapped in 2023.
The old appliances collected will finally be uniformly transported to the environmental protection dismantling company designated by the state for dismantling classification treatment, and the dismantled parts will be transferred from the dismantling plant to the next link, after the next step of deep processing, and then become usable raw materials for recycling.
Yao Kai, president of the logistics operation center of an e-commerce platform, said: "We have a traceability mechanism for old machines, strengthen the flow management of old machines, ensure that the flow of each old machine is documented, and promote environmental protection and safety."
In Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, through the "Jiajia Collection" wechat mini program, the public fill in the relevant information, there will be staff to recycle the old household appliances, and pay the public a certain depreciation cost.
Li Lin, deputy manager of operation management department of a waste commodity recycling company in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, said: "In 2023, we recycled more than 10,000 used household appliances. This year, with the launch of a new round of trade-in policy, it is expected that the business volume will increase by 20%."
Here is an old home appliances sorting center in Yuhang District of Hangzhou, the staff is sorting the recycled refrigerators, computers, air conditioners and other used home appliances into the warehouse, waiting to be sent downstream for dismantling. After the dismantling is completed, more than 200 categories of dismantled products are classified and stored, and copper, aluminum, plastics, rare metals and so on will re-enter the household appliance manufacturing link.
Tang Feng, brand director of Zhejiang Waste Management Co., LTD., said: "The whole process is supervised digitally, and at the same time, it provides a large number of renewable resources for the end enterprises, so that they can turn waste into treasure."
China set up a "waste Electrical and electronic products disposal fund" to subsidize the recycling and treatment of waste electrical and electronic products. According to the Administrative Measures on the Collection and Use of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Products Disposal Fund, from 2012 to 2022, China has issued subsidies totaling nearly 26.8 billion yuan, achieved remarkable results in pollution prevention and control, significantly increased the amount of standardized recycling and treatment, and steadily increased the output rate of copper, aluminum, iron, plastics and other resources.