The "Notice on Improving the Recycling System of Renewable Resources such as Waste Home Appliances and Furniture" jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce and other nine departments proposed that by 2025, the national recycling volume of waste home appliances and furniture will increase by more than 15% compared with 2023, and the level of standardized recycling of waste home appliances and furniture will be obvious. improve.

The current home appliance and furniture market is in a period of equal emphasis on both growth and inventory. A huge number of home appliances and furniture are updated and scrapped every year. The number of home appliances eliminated each year alone is about 200 million pieces, and the number is still growing. Improving the recycling system of renewable resources such as used household appliances and furniture will not only provide convenience for residents to exchange old ones for new ones and fully release the consumption potential of household appliances and furniture renewal, but will also help improve the efficiency of resource recycling, promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, and curb environmental pollution.

Waste household appliances and furniture contain a variety of recyclable renewable resources such as non-ferrous metals, plastics, rubber, glass, and wood. According to statistics, the total amount of waste home appliances recycled in my country last year was 4.5 million tons. For every ton of waste home appliances recycled, the dismantled renewable resources can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide by about 4.7 tons, and the emission reduction effect is obvious. At the same time, many waste household appliances contain harmful substances such as lead, mercury, and cadmium. If they are disposed of arbitrarily or dismantled irregularly, they will pollute water, air and soil; discarding or burning used furniture arbitrarily will also damage the environment. Therefore, standardized recycling and green recycling of used household appliances and furniture are an important link in improving the recycling system, promoting resource conservation and environmental protection. At present, most of the waste home appliances are recycled through social recycling, rather than through professional enterprises with corresponding qualifications and legal compliance. Low recycling levels and irregular disposal are common, and the risk of environmental pollution and resource waste is high. Conducive to the sustainable and high-quality development of the entire industry.

To promote the standardized treatment of waste household appliances and furniture, efforts need to be made to improve the level of legalization. While accelerating the promotion of legislation in the field of renewable resource recycling and improving the relevant standard system, government departments must urge relevant enterprises to operate in compliance with the law and severely crack down on illegal dismantling of used household appliances and furniture, illegal transfer or dumping of hazardous waste, etc. In addition, practical measures should be taken to support recycling companies to become bigger and stronger through chain operations, agreement cooperation, etc., and promote the formation of a group of leading companies with a high degree of organization, obvious scale benefits, and strong risk resistance capabilities; guide recycling companies and home appliances Furniture manufacturing companies have collaborated to unblock online and offline trade-in channels to increase the scale and intensification of recycling. The "regular army" can form a recycling force and squeeze out illegal and gray spaces.

In order to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction from the source, relevant departments should support and promote home appliance and furniture manufacturers to strengthen green design and technology research and development, improve the level of green and intelligent manufacturing, and use technology and processes that are easy to recycle and environmentally friendly materials that are easy to recycle in production. Strive to form a "green one-stop" system of design, manufacturing, marketing, recycling, and disposal. For example, Haier BCD-571WGHFD2BW4U1 refrigerator is produced using renewable raw materials, with a renewable utilization rate of 85%; Hisense Ronsheng refrigerator uses new foaming technology, which effectively reduces the amount of foam material used.

my country's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates greening and low-carbonization, but the endogenous driving force for green transformation is still insufficient. Strengthening the comprehensive management of solid waste, accelerating the construction of a waste recycling system including used household appliances and furniture, and promoting the construction of "waste-free cities" are of great significance to promoting the formation of green production and lifestyle and accelerating the construction of a beautiful China. It requires the government, enterprises and The public and other parties will further work together.