A few days later, the Haishi BBC office.
The media reporters who were out in the field gathered together again and reported to each other on their work.
Some people were triumphant and smiling, and it seemed that they had gained a lot.
Some people had pale faces, as if they had been severely traumatized, and seemed to have gained nothing.
The tall, thin middle-aged man was the person in charge of this office. He looked depressed and his hair was a little messy. He sighed and shook his head.
"I have driven around the landfills near Haishi in the past few days. I don't know why. There is much less plastic waste than before. I have rummaged through the landfills and found nothing."
He looked at his subordinates expectantly: "Have you gained anything?"
The female reporter in her early thirties adjusted her glasses and spoke excitedly.
“I visited some garbage recycling stations in urban areas, and they all reported that the price of plastic waste has increased now. Plastic waste that no one wanted in the past has been collected at their doorsteps. In comparison, the requirements are also higher. They need to do a good job of categorizing.”
"Although I don't know why, this just illustrates the reason why recycled waste manufacturers import plastic waste. It is because the price of domestic plastic waste has increased."
"Domestic plastic waste costs money, but foreign plastic waste is not only free, but also charges garbage disposal fees. This is obviously more cost-effective than domestic waste. Driven by profits, they collude with environmental protection agencies and endanger the health of the people. He did something so outrageous and outrageous."
The tall, thin, middle-aged man nodded, with a better expression: "Well done, just find out the reason, so you can explain it to netizens."
He looked at the young man beside him: "Xiao Zhang, what did you find?"
Xiao Zhang lowered his head and did not dare to look at each other: "Sorry, I went to some famous garbage villages and found that these places have been cleaned up long ago. There used to be a garbage village in Haishi. The surrounding environment was very polluted and the river water was black. It was smelly and full of garbage, so I ran over and found nothing. All the garbage in the river had been taken away."
"I also went to the estuary to observe, and even found some very dirty rivers, but even using drone aerial photography, I couldn't find any garbage pollution."
The tall and thin man looked disappointed: "It seems that there is indeed no environmental pollution. This is indeed not a bad thing. We can't start from this aspect."
At this time, Xiao Li couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone, handed it over like a treasure, and said with a smile.
"Guess what I found? I penetrated into the inside of the waste plastic processing plant and saw the truth about garbage recycling and processing. Looking at these photos and videos, you will definitely be eye-opened. You would never have imagined that they process recycling in this way. plastic waste."
Several people came over curiously and watched the secret visit video on their mobile phones attentively.
They saw a dilapidated and dirty factory area, with sewage flowing across the road and mountains of garbage, all of which were plastic waste that they could not find.
The tall and thin man suddenly became energetic: "Okay, okay, this is good, it's just the truth we need."
The video continued to play, and there was no common plastic recycling equipment in the huge factory, only large pools.
The manufacturer simply cleaned the collected plastic waste, soaked it in the pool, stuffed it full, and then left it there without any treatment.
The conversation between Xiao Li and the manufacturer was also recorded. According to the conversation between the two, this is the so-called garbage recycling process.
The tall and thin man was instantly overjoyed. He couldn't help but slap the table and said with a smile, "Great, this is the truth we are looking for."
"This is how these waste plastic processing plants are processed. They are completely fooling people. No wonder there is no thick smoke or black water. It turns out that there is no processing at all, only simple cleaning. It is so embarrassing to say that I Completed recycled plastic recycling?”
"Although I have never studied chemistry or worked in garbage recycling, I have watched videos on the chemical recycling of plastic waste. No one understands the garbage recycling process better than me. It requires a process on the regeneration and granulation production line. series of high-temperature operations and reactions.”
"There's obviously something wrong with this factory." He looked at Xiao Li and asked, "Do other waste recycling plants do this? Or is this one a special case?"
Xiao Li nodded proudly: "I visited several of them and confirmed that all the garbage recycling plants in this town operate in this way. None of them are normal. It's just that this one was renovated from a pig factory and has the worst environment, so I I only photographed his home.”
The tall and thin man smiled with satisfaction: "Great, it turns out the shady story is here."
"Now I understand, it turns out that the environmental protection agency has launched a heavy blow internally, put forward various stringent environmental protection requirements, and banned removal at every turn. As a result, waste plastic processing plants can only muddle through and dispose of the collected garbage. A little cleaning and crushing work is given to downstream plastic product factories, causing their processing costs to greatly increase and they cannot make ends meet, so they can only import waste plastics to make money."
Everyone nodded as they listened. Although they felt something was not quite right, they could only explain it this way.
The tall and thin man muttered: "We didn't do our homework before and attacked in the wrong direction. So not only was it ineffective, but it was self-defeating."
"In fact, we should not attack manufacturers who import waste plastic waste. They have done nothing wrong. The fault lies with the environmental protection department that issued the license to them."
"This time we will focus on attacking the environmental protection department. We believe we can awaken the masses and achieve the set goals."
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something: "I also took some photos of the landfill. Although the stuff buried under the geotextile is not plastic waste, we can process it later. It was so dark, so we said No one can see the plastic waste clearly."
Bang bang bang!
Xiao Li and others applauded so hard that their hands were swollen.
"The leadership is still wise, this move is really amazing!"
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Just after netizens saw through the paper clip’s sinister intentions and despised it in every possible way.
The heat of plastic waste slowly cooled down.
Just when people thought things would just end like this.
A few days later, Paperclip once again released a new video.
"The truth about waste plastic recycling!" 》
In the video, he once again spoke in a revealing tone, telling the truth he discovered during his secret visits to garbage recycling stations, waste plastic processing plants and other places.
This topic once again became a hot search topic. Netizens were stunned when they saw the garbage disposal scene in the video.
The melon in his mouth dropped in shock.
"I was wrong. It turns out that the paper clip is really good."
"This is so fucking outrageous. It's so outrageous. How can plastic waste be recycled like this? No, I was wrong. This is not recycling at all."
"My high school chemistry knowledge seems to be insufficient. Can anyone tell me how plastic waste is recycled? Does it include soaking in water?"
"It doesn't look right to me, a liberal arts student."
"This, although the plastic recycling plant used to be very polluting, but by doing this, isn't it a bit self-defeating?"
"Haha, going from one extreme to another, this is our private enterprise."
"I just want to ask, what are the environmental protection departments doing? Can these plastic waste be washed and taken directly to landfill? Can it be called recycling? Have you ever thought about how much pollution it will cause to the soil and groundwater?"
"I finally understood why all the garbage on the ground disappeared. It turned out that it was all buried underground."
"At the rate at which plastic waste degrades, it will take hundreds of years to disappear completely, and during this time, every inch of land under our feet will be filled with plastic waste."
"I'm speechless. Just like this, the environmental protection department still thinks that domestic plastic waste is not enough? And for some money, it allows recycled plastic companies to import plastic waste?"
"There must be some interests involved, I simply don't dare to think too much about it."
Just like that, the hot search for plastic waste once again dominated the list.
Netizens across the country became angry when they saw this shady scene.
The Internet Vs have not yet found any evidence to refute it, and they have all remained silent.
The official account of the environmental protection department was instantly flooded with angry comments from netizens.
Almost every comment asked the environmental protection department to give an explanation and to clean up the garbage recycling industry.
Suddenly, the Internet was filled with outrage and public resentment.
Not long after, the response from the environmental protection department came.
A statement was released directly across all platforms, and a documentary was played at the same time.
The attitude is very high-profile!
“Recently, everyone has paid great attention to the recycling of waste plastics in our country, and there has been a lot of criticism of our work. Just recently, modern microbial technology has developed by leaps and bounds, bringing the waste plastics recycling and processing industry into a new era. "
"Next, let us use a documentary to introduce the truth about plastic recycling to everyone and reveal the whereabouts of waste plastic!"
This documentary called "A Plastic Bottle's Journey to Rebirth" is being played everywhere on the Internet and TV.
Netizens clicked in to watch and were shocked to find that the recycling of waste plastics was completely different from what they imagined.
The documentary completely reveals the entire process of waste plastic recycling and processing from the perspective of a randomly discarded plastic bottle.
This is an ordinary plastic bottle that was sucked dry by passers-by one day and then thrown into the trash can.
It was quickly taken away by sanitation workers and wandered all the way between black garbage bags, three-wheeled garbage trucks, and garbage recycling stations. Finally, it was picked out, squeezed out of the air, curled up into a ball, and followed The other brothers and sisters were tightly tied together.
Their faces were pressed against each other, their bodies huddled together, and they were tightly tied together by a thick rope.
In this way, we came to the last stop in our life, the waste plastic processing plant.
Judging from past experience, it will soon undergo the baptism of high temperature, melt together with all its brothers and sisters, and finally be cut into small plastic particles, achieving a happy reunion state where you are among me, and you are among me.
However, this time, things have changed.
After it was cleaned, it was not thrown into the terrifying high-temperature furnace. Instead, it was reunited with the entire plastic family and happily took a bath in the swimming pool.
It's just that this is a special kind of bath water with a mysterious substance called super enzyme added to it.
It is a magical creation of the legendary Sanqing Group, which can degrade all members of the plastic family, regardless of men, women, old and young, into individual plastics.
Then, these plastic monomers are separated and processed into general-purpose plastic particles at high temperatures.
These general-purpose plastic particles will be sent to plastic product factories, where plasticizers, stabilizers, lubricants, colorants and other additives will be added to process them into colorful plastic particles.
Finally, it turned into plastic bottles again, completing a journey of rebirth.
Netizens were shocked after watching this documentary.
“After reading it, I feel like a hopeless illiterate.”
"It turns out that waste plastic recycling is so high-tech now, it's not the kind of small workshop with serious pollution I imagined."
"I'm so numb. I really can't keep up with the times."
"Is this true? Is it really not a specially produced promotional video?"
"It mentions the super enzyme of Sanqing Group. What on earth is this?"
"It's incredible. Just soak plastic in water and add super enzymes to completely degrade it. Then recycle the plastic to create new plastic products. From beginning to end, the loss is very low, and no matter how many times it is recycled, None of it affects the performance of the plastic.”
"The environmental protection department has done so many things secretly, but we only eat water all day long and go out to scold others. I really wrongly blame them."
"I confess that I am an illiterate person who has no quality. I watched a randomly put together video and doubted the authority of professionals."
"This time it was Sanqing Group that saved the earth and protected our environment."
Not long after, Sanqing Group also issued a public statement, stating that it has developed a super enzyme that can degrade various waste plastics. Therefore, it has reached a cooperation with the domestic recycled plastics industry to protect the natural environment of mankind and strive to completely eliminate white pollution as soon as possible. .
As soon as the news came out, it once again shocked the entire network.
The super enzyme finally made its stunning debut and became completely known to the world.
No one talks about 'where does the plastic waste go' anymore.
Paperclip was quickly shut down for spreading false videos.
Not long after, this account disappeared from all platforms.
And in the BBC's Haishi office.
Several people behind the scenes sat together, speechless, and their faces were dejected, as if they had aged ten years overnight.
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No. 250, Knight Street, Fog City, Bull Country.
Simon, CEO of the Europa Recycling Association, was shocked to discover that he was the one being taken advantage of.
He slapped the table and became furious: "These cunning Chinese people actually took advantage of us by taking advantage of others' danger."
"They already have a solution to the plastic waste problem, but they hide it and take advantage of the information gap to make money from us."
"You can obviously spend money to buy plastic waste from us, but you still want us to give it away for free, and even have to kill you and charge expensive waste disposal fees. It's so despicable and shameless!"
"If it weren't for the fact that there are just media people to expose the truth, they would not publish the facts, and they plan to continue to hide it and secretly make money from us. It is simply unreasonable!"
The more Simon talked, the more crazy he became. He was so angry that he covered his chest and almost had a heart attack.
I originally thought that China had to pay the price of environmental pollution to earn such a small amount of money.
Only their recycling association gives money so willingly, even with a hint of pity from the rich to the poor.
I never expected that this comparison turned out to be a rich man pretending to be poor, hoping to get rid of plastic waste and make a lot of money on disposal fees.
Before the super enzyme was revealed, the cost of waste plastic garbage disposal had risen to US$500 per container.
They are still scrambling for this, for fear that China will lose its mind and stop accepting waste plastic garbage.
In that case, the entire Western world would be inundated with garbage.
Unexpectedly, this man with thick eyebrows and big eyes actually learned to lie.
When he thought of this, he almost had a heart attack.
We are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but we are afraid of comparing goods.
It was even more uncomfortable to see Huaxia make money than to lose money himself.
"Fake, you go contact that Chinese recycled plastics company and tell them that we will never pay any garbage disposal fees anymore," Simon yelled at the female secretary: "You must not let them treat me like a fool. "
"Mr. Simon, I'm afraid this is difficult to do. Now, except for China, there is no place that can handle these waste plastic waste. We have no choice. Even if we pay to send it there, we can only agree to their request."
The female secretary analyzed in an unusually calm tone.
These words were like a bucket of cold water poured on Simon's head, instantly calming him down.
He knew very well that despite being angry, plastic waste still had to be dealt with.
We cannot let the smoggy city, the financial heart of Europa, really turn into a city of garbage.
And just like the female secretary said, facing the Chinese recycled plastics manufacturer that has a super enzyme as a killer, he has no choice but to accept any conditions of the other party.
Because even if you pay $500 for a container, it is much cheaper than disposing of this garbage in Europa.
"Fake, this damn Sanqing, why is it again? Why doesn't a magical baby like Super Enzyme belong to us?"
Simon said angrily: "Damn it, why can't our biotechnology companies develop such good things?"
Just when the recycling associations of various countries were furious and had no choice but to pinch their noses and admit defeat.
The environmental protection departments of various countries were all astonished, as if they had discovered a rare treasure.
They called and wrote one after another, requesting cooperation with Sanqing, hoping to use super enzymes to solve the growing problem of plastic pollution.
(End of chapter)
