Aug 22, 2010 0
The creative modes of garbage collection and disposal
Categories: Garbage Collection
Tags: landfill, municipal waste, recycle bank
Source: “new wealth” in January 2010.
High-speed urbanization has brought a lot of municipal solid waste, to waste as a carrier to build the innovative multi-benefit business model, not only to solve the threats to the environment of excess waste, but also to find a unique way of making money.
China’s rapid urbanization has brought a lot of municipal solid waste, their number has begun to challenge many of the city’s waste disposal capacity. Beijing, for example, a variety of waste to increase the rate of 8% per year in 2008, Nissan garbage 18,400 tons, in 2012 the city’s daily garbage production capacity will reach 25,000 tons daily in 2015 exceeded 30,000 tons, By then, Beijing existing landfill will be full at full capacity. Clearly, the landfill has been the traditional approach can not cope with the rapid increase in municipal waste and landfill itself is also facing environmental pollution, low economic efficiency and other issues. However, in fact, garbage is not “a hundred more harm than good”, if well utilized, waste disposal is also tremendous opportunities. United States’ Recycle bank “and” Cool Carpet, “and China’s Jia Bowen, are in garbage as the carrier, build multi-benefit business model, turning waste into treasure, not only solve the garbage excess threats to the environment, but also found a unique way of making money.
“Recycle bank”: change trash into integral
“Recycle Bank” is an American garbage collection company, to build a new business model, so that residents, businesses, government and other stakeholders and business interests are in the same chain, achieve win-win situation. Since 2003, recycling of waste began in Philadelphia, “renewable banks’ rapid expansion of business, prompting the U.S. 21 states of municipal waste recovery rate has doubled, but also extend the program to the United Kingdom; in each implementation of the plan of the city, the public participation rate of single-digit growth from the initial to the current more than 90%. According to its official website revealed the plan year for garbage collection, saving local governments millions of dollars in landfill costs, save more than 400 million trees, and save millions of gallons of gasoline. The “Recycle Bank’ environmental nature, the investment firm or institution which not only gain considerable economic benefits, while establishing a positive corporate image, making it the financing that has a considerable advantage. So far, the “Recycle Bank” In addition to three totaling more than $ 70 million capital injection, it also attracted the Coca-Cola to join.
“Recycle Bank” model is not complicated, first, residents to participate in the project are provided with two trashes, one specifically for green waste like tree branches, the other is used to deliver mixed waste. The core part is, the bottom of each bin are fitted with electronic tags RFID, and garbage collection vehicles are equipped with a truck rear RFID detection device, when the trash is emptied, the ID information of the residents will be automatically obtained . At the same time, when the trash truck is lift, waste is weighed by the boom equipped with the “Recycle Bank Scale” for the recycling, then record and store data, finally back to the recycling sorting facility. The weight of each household garbage will be from “recycle bank” system into integral, the more of delivery of recyclable waste residents delivery the more integral they will get. These “recycled” integral now can be used in Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and Home Depot and other co-tenants, including 400 of more than 2400 retail stores. In addition, mobile phones and other electronic waste recycling, using solar or wind power and other clean energy sources and chosen to take public transportation and other environmentally friendly behavior also a way to get the corresponding integral points.
Take Philadelphia for example, in the absence of co-operation with”recycle bank” before, the residents produce 750,000 tons waste per year, the expenditure of government’s handling of the waste are 40 million dollars. In 2003, the founder of ”Recycle bank” Ron Gonen persuaded the mayor of Philadelphia agreed “recycle bank” to deal with the city’s garbage, after that, the government only grants $ 12 million per year. Moreover, after the “Recycle Bank” entered the community, the government’s spending on the landfill is also greatly reduced. With a population of only 80,000 Wilmington, for example, with the “Recycle bank” implementation to recycling programs, waste sent to landfill reducing by 40%, the government save $ 0.8 million each annual and “Recycle bank” Fifth split. In addition, the “Recycle Bank’ cooperation with recycling companies to provide them with raw materials, resulting income also split with the government equally.
Analysts pointed out that the huge amount of garbage collection of the ”Recycle Bank’ will provide a new revenue source for them. With the chip records and account information, which can grasp the user’s age, gender, income and consumption levels and other information, like a glimpse of the forms of business across the region, it is possible to pack and sale the customer’s base information to the business.
InterfaceFLOR “Cool Carpet”
Low-carbon products in the Landfill.
Traditional trash fills in buries the field while to release some irritating unusual smells, also will discharge some naked eyes will not look the greenhouse gas, like methane and so on. These ferment the methane which by trash produces, if is not prompt removes easily not only to have the combustion, even causes the detonation, moreover in the atmosphere the methane produces the greenhouse effect is above carbon dioxide 20 times, therefore has formed two pollution to the environment.The world’s largest carpet tile manufacturer InterfaceFlor from the biogas to find a unique business opportunity.
InterfaceFLOR reached an agreement with the government, funded by the Government to collect methane gas, and then provided to the InterfaceFLOR, while Intel invested $ 50,000 to fly the two into a gas boiler boiler to gas to replace natural gas. From the government point of view, landfill gas was promptly deprived, not only ruled out the security risks, but also extend the life of the landfill, landfill greatly improved the surrounding environment, so that the residents of the local government The support has been greatly improved.
On the other hand, according to the agreement the price per unit of gas 30% cheaper than natural gas, effectively reducing the production cost of InterfaceFLOR. More importantly, Intel’s marketing department will be flying this low-carbon product called “Cool Carpet” (Cool Carpet), fame. Since 1996, InterfaceFLOR total reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 88% and 45% of energy consumption, the overall negative impact on the environment decreased by 50%, and the core product of water is also reduced by 80%, plant construction waste reduced by 70%. Over the same period, has increased its global sales by 50%, the total pre-tax income increased 95%. Southwest Airlines in the new exhibition “carbon balance” model aircraft can be used on 100% recycled InterfaceFLOR carpet.
Jia Bowen: open up the kitchen chain
Trench oil, swill pork and other black chain swill failure to prohibit repeatedly is behind the market of 50 million tons of kitchen waste domestic cities annually, even in the second-tier cities, there are millions of tons of generation every day. If only using landfill, composting, incineration and other traditional manner to deal with the kitchen waste is not only to cause secondary pollution to the environment easily, and also the handling costs are higher. However, if completely harmless dealing, then the investment per ton of garbage as high as 300 yuan RMB. In Switzerland, a company called Kompogas generated methane by fermentation of the kitchen waste, biological waste residues remaining after fermentation is a high-quality compost, sold in supermarkets, the seemingly useless kitchen waste into recycled products, to achieve economic and social benefits of the bumper. And from Beijing Jia Bowen is using the kitchen, creating a circular economy based on recycling system (BGB), and open up organic matter cycle of the industry chain between urban and rural areas.
Food waste disposal fees, organic farming and organic agricultural production revenue income is Jia Bowen’s three major sources of income. First collected by sanitation department to deal with kitchen waste transport station uniform, which received waste disposal revenue. Second, will be elected by non-organic kitchen waste into its unique biochemical BGB processor, micro-generation bio-feed and fertilizer raw material supply to feed suppliers. After special processing of these raw materials into bio-feed raw materials, microbial fertilizer agents, can be used in organic farming and ecological farming, resource recycling, not only help to improve agricultural productivity and quality, but also to improve the land utilization. Another advantage is that since there is no raw material cost, and efficacy of traditional fertilizers, compared with a similar, BGB microbial fertilizer with a clear price advantage. In the most downstream industry chain, Jia Bowen also produce their own agricultural products, agricultural products, this is expected with the ecological concept of agricultural products to obtain higher prices than normal.
