Bad news for local waste collectors: City to install 1,500 recycling machines offering financial rewards
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PEOPLE who make a living collecting and selling discarded plastic bottles might soon find their margins being squeezed due to a government plan to install 1,500 recycling machines that offer financial rewards for the ubiquitous vessels.
The first of them have already been put in place at the Gubei Fortune Center in Changning District and Zhongfang Jinyi Square in the Pudong New Area. Others will appear at Metro stations, shopping malls and other public places in the coming months, with the number set to hit 1,500 over the next year.
Incom Recycle, the firm that manages the machines, said the concept has been tested in Beijing since 2013, where almost 2,000 are now in operation and about 20 million bottles have been reclaimed.
In Shanghai, anyone who makes a deposit will be paid between 0.05 and 0.15 yuan per bottle, with the funds added as credit to their mobile balance or WeChat wallet account. Instructions are available on the machines in Chinese and English.
Zhang Yi, a professor at the Shanghai Design Institute in Environment Sanitary Engineering, said he is in favor of the new machines as they will help to regulate the collection and handling of the potentially harmful plastics. “Waste recycling should follow a standard procedure. Improper waste handling by private mills can lead to further pollution of the environment,” he said.
Incom said that all of the bottles collected will be processed at its own mills and sold on for industrial use.
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