Typical experience practices of the first batch of home appliance manufacturers to recycle target responsibility actions
Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly organized experts to evaluate the implementation of the first batch of home appliance manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling targets, and conducted a study and summary of typical experience and practices formed in the process of work, which is now published.
The experts of the evaluation team unanimously agreed that since the launch of the target responsibility system action, the six responsibility production enterprises of Haier, Gree, TCL, Changhong, Midea and Hisense have actively participated and taken the initiative, and have better implemented the requirements of the "Notice on Encouraging Home Appliance Manufacturers to Carry out Recycling Target Responsibility System Actions" (Fa Gai Industry [2021] No. 1102) and other documents, effectively improved the recycling and treatment capacity of waste home appliances through independent recycling and entrusted recycling, and basically achieved the task goals set at the beginning of the operation. A large number of useful explorations have been carried out on the construction of recycling network system, the construction of information platform, and the improvement of dismantling capabilities, forming a number of replicable and replicable experience and practices, and the target responsibility system has achieved good results.
1. Comprehensively build a recycling system
Enterprises mainly recycle waste home appliances through self-built channels, cooperative channels and socialized channels. In terms of self-built recycling channels, Gree integrated 30,000 sales stores and 300,000 installation and after-sales teams in 28 provinces and cities across the country, and built its own secondary freight yards in Zhengzhou, Changsha and Wuhu to carry out the recycling of all categories of waste home appliances for consumers. Relying on platform resources and Changhong's sales and service channels across the country, Changhong Gerun takes waste home appliance recycling companies or individual channel networks as the core nodes to support the diversification of resource product recycling. In terms of improving cooperative recycling channels, Midea Group has laid out 40 distribution centers across the country to carry out recycling business, responsible for the reverse recycling network management of downstream freight yards or Midea system stores, and each distribution center has completed the construction of points in Midea's recycling system, and signed an electronic network service contracting agreement with Midea on an annual basis. In terms of building a socialized recycling system, Haier has continuously improved the recycling system for waste home appliances, promoted the formation of a recycling network covering many counties and cities across the country, reached strategic cooperation with nearly 1,300 recyclers across the country, and achieved coverage of more than 2,000 district and county recyclers across the country.
Second, effectively improve the dismantling processing capacity
All responsible enterprises regard the transportation and transportation system, dismantling and processing capacity, and traceability information platform as important contents of capacity building. Haier has built the industry's first green cycle demonstration interconnection factory, which has been put into operation in September 2022, which can disassemble 3 million waste home appliances and modify 30,000 tons of granulated recycled plastics every year. Gree has built recycling and sorting centers for waste home appliances in Zhongshan, Nanjing, Chengdu and Wuhu, and simultaneously built an information management platform to realize intelligent information management of warehousing and support the demand for goods in back-end dismantling. Midea has built a set of visual recycling information management system with users-outlets-distribution centers-dismantling plants as the whole link around the customer service system. In order to improve recycling efficiency, TCL has vigorously carried out the construction of recycling warehouses in the three cities of eastern Guangdong, which can directly cover traditional recycling personnel and reduce intermediate links such as recycling stations and traders. On the basis of existing sites, Hisense develops enterprise information management systems, builds information networks, builds "Internet + recycling" platforms for waste home appliances, and uses channels such as distribution, installation, and maintenance to build a reverse logistics recycling system. Changhong Gerun relies on the resource sales and service channels of Changhong platform to carry out reverse recycling of waste home appliances and establish a waste home appliance recycling management information system.
3. Actively promote green development
Midea Group has obtained the product carbon footprint certification (CFP) based on ISO 14067:2018 in microwave oven products, and has achieved breakthroughs in 14 "national green factories" and 3 "national green supply chains" in the field of green manufacturing. Haier has established a "carbon neutral" green factory, committed to reducing carbon emissions using green designs such as recycled building materials, thermal insulation composite panels, pretreatment and solidification, heat recovery, and water recycling. Gree attaches importance to independent research and development, innovation drives material recycling and dual-carbon economic development, from the recycling of waste home appliances to the sorting, classification, modification research and reuse of recycled plastics, builds a closed-loop industrial chain of plastic circulation, realizes the full life cycle management and process control of post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR), and has completed the PCR certification of PP, HIPS and ABS.
