The recycling industry of used mobile phones has a bright future, but it still faces many problems

With the popularity of mobile phones, consumers change their mobile phones more and more frequently.

It can be found that mobile phone recycling is not only getting more and more attention, but also becoming a new industry, which has some deep impact on the development of the whole society.

It's better to trade in the old for the new

In the first half of this year, Mr. Zhao, a citizen of Beijing, had the experience of selling old mobile phones.

Mr. Zhao said that his mobile phone was bought in September last year, with a price of more than 900 yuan. In April this year, he took a fancy to a higher-end model on a large shopping website, which was much more expensive than the original mobile phone.

"The original mobile phone has been used for less than a year, and I began to think it was a bit uneconomical. Later, I found that this shopping website also provides mobile phone recycling service, so I made an online evaluation of my mobile phone, and found that it is still worth more than 400 yuan, so I sold the old mobile phone on the Internet decisively." Mr. Zhao said that the process of selling mobile phones is relatively simple. An application is submitted online, and then a special person comes to collect it.

According to Mr. Zhao, in the recycling process, the staff is more serious and carefully tested the mobile phone.

"However, what I get after I sell my mobile phone is not cash, but the personal account of this shopping website." Mr. Zhao said that despite this, he still felt it was more cost-effective. First, the price of mobile phones was relatively satisfactory. Second, there were many things on the shopping website, and daily necessities could be bought.

According to Ke Li, Secretary General of electronic product recycling branch of China Society for material recycling, with the development and application of high and new technology, people's requirements for the appearance and function of mobile phones are constantly improving, and the cycle of mobile phone renewal is gradually shortened. According to the survey, in 2011, the replacement cycle of China's smart phones was 29 months, while in 2014, about 50% of users had to change their phones for 18 months, and 20% of users had to change their phones within one year. After two years of use, the proportion of users changed their phones dropped to 30%; the average service life of mobile phones was about 1.9 years.

"The recovered mobile phones can be divided into used mobile phones and discarded mobile phones, with different recycling methods. Some relatively new and fashionable mobile phones are sold in the form of second-hand mobile phones after being cleaned, polished, beautified or repaired after acquisition; another is the discarded mobile phones, which are sent to the disassembly factory in batches for disassembly, and some components can be reused or the precious metals in the circuit board can be extracted. " Yukori said.

Feng Yanan, founder of Doko recycling, said that the discarded mobile phones are usually old ones, which are basically useless and have no practical use value. The process of disassembling and extracting such mobile phones is complex and of low value. Second hand mobile phones can continue to circulate in the market, with higher value.

Gradually open and transparent recycling

At present, the trend of industrialization of mobile phone recycling industry is obvious, and it has also been sought after by the capital market, which has become the potential of Internet outlet.

Not long ago, according to relevant media reports, the recycling treasure platform, which focuses on the recycling of idle mobile phones, obtained a + round of financing from SMC Shiming group, with Kaiqi capital as the exclusive Financing Consultant. According to he fan, CEO of recycling treasure, the valuation is nearly three times higher than that of round a half a year ago. Before that, 3C product recycling platform Aihui obtained 60 million US dollars from Chenxing, Jingdong, Tiantu and other joint investments, and launched a large-scale brand promotion.

With the rapid development of mobile phone recycling industry, the prospect of the industry is gradually clear.

"There is a large amount of waste mobile phones that need to be treated now. Why there are so many used mobile phones? It's because the number of professional institutions specialized in mobile phone recycling is too small. Some people's mobile phones are useless, but they don't know where to deal with them. They can only leave them at home. " Feng Yanan said that mobile phone recycling is not a new industry. In the past, many mobile phone stores provided recycling services. However, the old recycling method in the past has not established a reputation, the main reason is that the recycling process is not transparent enough. Now due to the rapid development of the Internet, the mobile phone recycling industry can be rebuilt in the way of the Internet. The biggest advantage of the Internet is to make mobile phone recycling open and transparent, and get more people's recognition.

"Without a better and recognized recycling method, many people don't have the motivation to deal with used mobile phones." Feng Yanan said that the future development trend of mobile phone recycling is promising.

"China's current recycling channels of used mobile phones mainly include individual mobile traders, second-hand mobile phone recyclers, dealers and repairers, and some mobile phone manufacturers have also carried out some related activities." Yu Keri believes that according to the research and estimation of the mobile phone recycling market, the recycling volume of China's used mobile phones in 2015 is about 200 million; stimulated by the policy of the upcoming implementation of the waste mobile phone processing subsidies, it is estimated that the recycling volume of China's used mobile phones in 2016 will be between 200 million and 300 million. Compared with the annual elimination of 600-700 million mobile phones, the recovery rate of used mobile phones is growing, but there is still a large space for growth.

"In the future, the recycling scope will not only be limited to mobile phones, but also gradually expand to all aspects of life. In the past, there was a lack of materials, and there were not many waste materials. Now, there are many waste materials in people's life. It's a waste to put waste materials at home. The recycling industry can make use of them. " Feng Yanan said that, just like some large-scale shopping websites now, they started from selling electronic products and gradually expanded to selling all kinds of daily necessities. Mobile phone recycling industry