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Industries gain new recycling network
Created: 2008-11-12 0:35:56
Author:Liang Yiwen
THE operator of a business zone in Pudong New Area plans to help put illegal trash collectors out of business by setting up a recycling network that matches waste producers with authorized waste disposal companies.
The coordination will take place through a Website titled the Pudong Recyclable Resource Public Service Platform, which will be opened to the Chinese-speaking public in the middle of next month.
Users, both businesses and families, can access the service by visiting Pd3r.com or calling 400-880-3828. Authorized logistics and garbage collection companies can bid to provide professional waste disposal services to the members of the platform at no cost. Fees will be charged to firms handling the refuse, which ranges from paper to plastics to metals and includes hazardous wastes such as acids.
The Website was created and funded by the Jinqiao (Group) Co Ltd, which runs the Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone. The high-level development zone is home to modern industry, residences, commerce and trade.
The recycling platform plans to promote the service initially among the processing enterprises located in Jinqiao.
The platform aims to direct business to legal waste disposal companies and clean up the current disorder in the garbage disposal market by setting up an industrial chain for waste disposal.
"Currently, most trash from factories and homes is taken improperly by self-employed people - the ones who ring their bells around the neighborhood to collect waste," said Zhao Junyi, the business supervisor of the platform.
"It's a pity that the high-tech equipment of many legal waste disposal companies lies unused."
She said that while recycling technology has matured, the lack of an effective collection network has prevented greater use of the equipment.
Though the illegal disposal of industrial refuse is unsafe and may pollute the environment, the purchase price offered by unlicensed collectors for recyclable waste is usually more attractive than the price offered by legal service providers, who make greater efforts to dispose of the waste according to environmental rules.
Improper disposal
Illegal collectors often recover salvageable components from industrial garbage for secondary sale and improperly dispose of leftover parts and dangerous chemicals.
Waste handled through the platform, on the other hand, will receive proper treatment. Zhao said recyclable material in industrial waste such as metals and plastics will be removed by high-tech equipment and non-recyclable or dangerous refuse will be sent for disposal to a waste processing center, which is also located in the Jinqiao area.
"Standard waste disposal may be easy to promote among Jinqiao's large number of international companies, which have a relatively strong environmental protection consciousness," said Feng Liping, an executive at the new enterprise.
The recycling enterprise has also established an office building with 2,500 square meters for rent in Jinqiao. The center will provide opportunities for waste disposal companies to build connections with processing firms.
The coordination will take place through a Website titled the Pudong Recyclable Resource Public Service Platform, which will be opened to the Chinese-speaking public in the middle of next month.
Users, both businesses and families, can access the service by visiting Pd3r.com or calling 400-880-3828. Authorized logistics and garbage collection companies can bid to provide professional waste disposal services to the members of the platform at no cost. Fees will be charged to firms handling the refuse, which ranges from paper to plastics to metals and includes hazardous wastes such as acids.
The Website was created and funded by the Jinqiao (Group) Co Ltd, which runs the Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone. The high-level development zone is home to modern industry, residences, commerce and trade.
The recycling platform plans to promote the service initially among the processing enterprises located in Jinqiao.
The platform aims to direct business to legal waste disposal companies and clean up the current disorder in the garbage disposal market by setting up an industrial chain for waste disposal.
"Currently, most trash from factories and homes is taken improperly by self-employed people - the ones who ring their bells around the neighborhood to collect waste," said Zhao Junyi, the business supervisor of the platform.
"It's a pity that the high-tech equipment of many legal waste disposal companies lies unused."
She said that while recycling technology has matured, the lack of an effective collection network has prevented greater use of the equipment.
Though the illegal disposal of industrial refuse is unsafe and may pollute the environment, the purchase price offered by unlicensed collectors for recyclable waste is usually more attractive than the price offered by legal service providers, who make greater efforts to dispose of the waste according to environmental rules.
Improper disposal
Illegal collectors often recover salvageable components from industrial garbage for secondary sale and improperly dispose of leftover parts and dangerous chemicals.
Waste handled through the platform, on the other hand, will receive proper treatment. Zhao said recyclable material in industrial waste such as metals and plastics will be removed by high-tech equipment and non-recyclable or dangerous refuse will be sent for disposal to a waste processing center, which is also located in the Jinqiao area.
"Standard waste disposal may be easy to promote among Jinqiao's large number of international companies, which have a relatively strong environmental protection consciousness," said Feng Liping, an executive at the new enterprise.
The recycling enterprise has also established an office building with 2,500 square meters for rent in Jinqiao. The center will provide opportunities for waste disposal companies to build connections with processing firms.
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