Thinking: Pros and Cons of Beverage Bottle Recycling Machines

For environmental considerations, we can introduce beverage container recycling machines; for economic reasons, it is said that relevant parties are prepared to introduce self-service tankers. However, where can we export a lot of our labor force?

From April this year onwards, the outdoor beverage container recycling machine on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street has been working for nearly 3 months. This green tube that can “spill” out a dime for every “eat” of an empty bottle has become a new scene on the streets. Visitors even need to queue up for bottles. The data on the screen of the recycling machine shows that the current machine has “swallowed” more than 20,000 empty bottles. According to related sources, the pedestrian street will add two new recycling machines as soon as possible.

However, I still have doubts, I can not help but think of one thing that Lao Zhang spoke to one year ago. Also on Nanjing Road, one day when he wandered around with a bottle of drink, a middle-aged man asked him for a bottle. Laozhang talked to him and learned that the man was a bottle-holder and he had a good business. He could receive several hundred a day and could exchange tens of dollars. Laozhang asked, how many people do this? The man took it easy and said: This, this, that, it is all. They look similar to ordinary tourists, but they often carry large plastic bags in their hands, which contain the drink bottles.

According to simple calculations, the beverage container recycling machine on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street has been working for nearly 3 months now, collecting more than 20,000 empty bottles, with an average of more than 200 per day. Basically, it uses “human flesh recycling” (applying “human flesh search”). The argument is similar, but the cost is definitely much higher.

Of course, "human flesh recycling" may bring a lot of trouble to all parties. But also need to see the good side they bring to society. Without these people, the recycling of discarded plastic bottles will not be as smooth as now. And if the government or the company wants to take it. This article comes from the Chinese packaging bottle network. The responsibility in this regard will pay a great deal of cost. On the other hand, they support themselves through labor and do not bother the government. It is a good thing for them to benefit from many things.

However, the relevant aspects of promoting beverage container recycling machines will not look at the problem from this perspective. On the one hand, they see the trouble of “recycling of human flesh”. On the other hand, the container recycling machine itself is a landscape, a work, and it will not cause any trouble for the relevant parties, and almost no one can say that safety What's wrong with this kind of machine?

If the beverage container recycling machine is promoted on a large scale, on the one hand, the relevant parties need to invest a lot of money to purchase and maintain the machine, but at the same time, many people who engage in “personal meat recycling” will not be easy to earn a little money, and may cut off their livelihood. Road, life is more difficult. It seems that blindly "in line with international standards" is not a good thing.