Chapter 311 Ultimate and Reflection

At this moment, Zhang Lei reached out and scanned the QR code of the waste bottle recycling machine with his mobile phone: "This recycling is rich, an ordinary plastic bottle costs 0.70 cents."

Julie stuffed the plastic bottle into it, and a text message popped up on Zhang Lei's UnionPay wallet, reminding him that he had received 0.7 cents.

"It's very convenient. When I traveled to Berlin, there were a lot of recycling machines like this there." Julie said with a smile. Suddenly she remembered something, picked up the mineral water she just bought and asked:

"Mr. Stone, what material is this bottle made of? Doesn't it look like a plastic bottle?"

Zhang Lei glanced at the bottle of Nongfu Spring and explained with a smile: "This is a glass bottle. It is a new material developed to reduce the use of plastic bottles. The recycling price of this bottle is 10 cents."

Glass bottle? Julie looked at the mineral water bottle in her hand with wide eyes. Although it felt different, the weight had not increased much.

After taking a sip of Bingfeng soda, Vivian asked in surprise: "Is this bottle really made of glass? It feels so light!"

"It is made of new materials and can be recycled for about 12 to 15 years without releasing harmful substances." Zhang Lei explained again.

At present, the bottles of domestic beverage companies have completely switched to silicon nano glass bottles and cans, and are gradually phasing out plastic bottles.

In fact, the difference between the two can be seen from the pricing of the waste bottle recycling machine. For mineral water bottles of the same specifications, the recycling price of plastic bottles is 0.7 cents, while the recycling price of silicon nano glass bottles is 1 cents.

These waste bottle recycling machines also recycle Snail bags and Greatview bags, but they do not recycle Tetra Pak. Tetra Pak, which was deliberately targeted by the three major environmental protection groups, is in an increasingly difficult situation in China.

Although the property rights of these recycling machines belong to the three major environmental protection groups, they have adopted a store-sharing plan to accelerate the promotion of the project.

Each bottle recycled by a recycling machine will give the bound store a 30% share, and the store needs to ensure electricity, network, and maintain the recycling machine.

Some large shopping malls and supermarkets will be equipped with special areas for recycling machines. With the accelerated promotion of silicon nanoglass bottles in China, the number of beverage bottles entering the recycling stage in the future will be approximately 300 to 400 million per day.

This number is very huge. Currently, the world consumes approximately 300 billion plastic bottles a year, and it is expected that this number will increase to 580 billion by 2021.

There are not a few plastic bottles added to the country every year. In the city of Peking alone, 6 billion plastic bottles of various types are produced every year. This is not only a huge waste of resources, but also increases domestic crude oil consumption. Therefore, the government has joined forces to The three major environmental protection groups are gradually adjusting the domestic beverage bottle market.

Don't look at the current price of 0.70 cents for a plastic bottle. According to the internal plans of the three major environmental protection groups, the recycling price of plastic bottles will decrease year by year, and after recycling, they are not allowed to enter the market again and are uniformly consumed as raw materials for gas.

Through this method, beverage companies are forced to switch to silicon nano glass bottles.

Among the companies most affected, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are in a dilemma.

If they choose plastic bottles, they will face accusations that they are not environmentally friendly, and after consumers purchase them, the difference in recycling prices between plastic bottles and glass bottles will reduce some consumers' desire to buy.

If you choose glass bottles, you will be harvested by Snail Industry and Greatview Packaging every year.

As for their new environmentally friendly bottle research and development project with Tetra Pak, the current progress is very slow. Even if it is developed, the three major environmental protection groups will not recognize it at that time. Unless they build their own recycling channels, it will be no different from plastic bottles.

Julie and the others only saw the surface. In fact, China's recycling industry has developed to a very comprehensive level.

A recycled bottle industry has a direct economic output value of tens of billions, and is indirectly related to an output value of hundreds of billions, as well as various games.

Vivian asked worriedly: "Will this bottle break easily?"

"Don't worry about this. I dropped it on the ground several times and it didn't break." Hall shook the mineral water bottle in his hand. After speaking, he let go of his hand. The bottle fell to the ground and rolled around a few times, but it was still intact.

"Oh, buy it..." Vivian covered her mouth. The scene in front of her subverted her understanding of glass bottles.

Julie also looked surprised. Ordinary glass bottles would break almost immediately.

"In the future, the plot of smashing glass bottles as weapons in movies may disappear." Zhang Lei laughed at it.

Vivian was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Haha..."

Everyone was talking and laughing while walking towards the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. If you don’t come to Chang’an to see the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, it’s like you didn’t come.

There are many terracotta warriors and horses pits that are open to tourists, and many tourists are watching and taking pictures. In the tourist activity area, tourists are allowed to take pictures as long as they do not turn on the flash.

"Oh, yes! It's so shocking!" Weiweian picked up the camera and exclaimed in a low voice while taking pictures.

Julie on the side, after being shocked by such a large-scale terracotta warriors and horses, remembered some legends circulated on the Western Internet: "Mr. Shitou, I heard that these terracotta warriors and horses were made of living people. Is that true?"

"NO, archaeological experts have done nuclear magnetic resonance and found that there are no human remains inside the pottery figurines." Zhang Lei shook his head:

"Moreover, these terracotta warriors and horses were modeled after the army of the Qin Empire. No matter how stupid and unscrupulous the emperor of an empire was, he would not use soldiers to bury them. After all, the Qin Empire relied on the military merit system to rise."

"Sorry, I also read some blog posts on the Internet, saying that the terracotta warriors and horses were made of living people."

Zhang Lei spread his hands and said with a smile: "The people who say these words may have never been to China in their lives. This kind of arrogance and prejudice exists everywhere."

After visiting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the group went to Lishan Mountain not far away. They visited several scenic spots throughout the day. As the sun set, Zhang Lei drove them to the Everest Hotel in Chang'an to stay.

In the hotel room.

Julie stretched, opened her laptop, and wrote a blog post on her YouTube account called "Travel in China", along with the photos she took.

Then she browsed various English web pages on the Chinese Internet, or used Google Translate to read some purely Chinese web pages.

After Julie accidentally entered the time information blog, she was attracted by the various professional posts here.

Is the Helan Mountain fire extinguished?

Is Horqin Sandy Land about to disappear?

The east-west water transmission project extends to Alxa League, Pingliang and Ning District?

Although it was very difficult for her to read because of the translation, she roughly understood the meaning. After reading these professional analysis posts, Julie was deeply shocked.

For example, in the matter of extinguishing spontaneous combustion of coal seams, she learned for the first time that the carbon dioxide produced by spontaneous combustion of coal seams actually accounted for 3% of global greenhouse gases.

In terms of controlling land desertification, China is no longer resisting the invasion of the desert, but launching a counterattack against the desert.

Julie took out her ballpoint pen and wrote down some things and places, planning to go there and have a look if she had the chance.

After this preliminary understanding, she discovered that there are huge differences in environmental protection between the East and the West. This difference made Julie a little puzzled and had a vague feeling.

In fact, in many things, as long as the fixed thinking is broken, one will fall into self-doubt. Julie is in this state at this time. She feels that she is living in a world surrounded by lies.

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