Used small household appliances, maintenance expensive, difficult to recycle

Rice cookers, microwave ovens, and hair dryers are among the essential home appliances for small household appliances. New home appliances such as yogurt makers, slow cookers, ovens, and egg cookers have attracted a large number of young consumers to be tempted because of their personalization and innovation. The small home appliance market is booming, but its after-sales problems have been repeatedly criticized: the maintenance network is fragmented and imperfect, and the maintenance cost is high. It is a pity that it is useless to leave it, and the recovery channel is not good.

Waste small appliance repair expensive recovery difficult

"Soymilk motor water, appliance repair shop maintenance, material processing costs a total of 100 yuan, considering again and again, might as well buy a new one." Mr. Sun eventually chose to buy 375 yuan new soymilk. There are many consumers like Mr. Sun. More small appliances, such as egg cookers and electric kettles, will be directly told by the owner of the repair shop. “Maintenance is not cost-effective. Replace it with new ones.” The process of repairing small household appliances purchased on the Internet is even more troublesome, using 3 months of automatic eggs. After the winding machine broke, Ms. Wang complained: "Not only bear the return shipping costs, but also charge maintenance fees. Self repair, go to a few stores without damage to parts of the inventory, the cost is not cheap." Like cookers, hair dryers, humidifiers The maintenance cost of small appliances is not much worse than buying new ones. Therefore, when these small appliances fail, most consumers are willing to buy new ones.

The disposal of a large number of waste small household appliances has become a headache for consumers. In many districts around Xi’an, there are vendors that collect used appliances, but the signs they use are recycled air conditioners, computers, and television sets. Small appliances are not included. A trader told reporters that even small household appliances that can still be used, generally no one is willing to recycle, and the demolition of parts cannot remove any materials that can be sold. The discarded small household appliances can only be thrown away as garbage.

Small household appliances "old for new" seek to break

The United States Life Appliance has launched a discount of 100 yuan on the same brand as the old model for a new type of electric baking pan. The activity is very effective and the consumers' enthusiasm is high. According to the staff of the US Life Electrical Appliance Marketing Department, it is expected that the trade-in business of the US small appliances will be gradually launched in the future.

The reporter visited a large appliance store and found that compared to refrigerators, air conditioners and other "big" long-term trade-in activities, small household appliances this business only as off-season sales stage individual brand marketing, did not form a normal state. Some well-known small home appliance brand owners admitted that because the country does not have a policy for recycling small household appliances, home appliance companies such as self-collection of small household appliances, companies pay staff, warehousing, funds and other high cost and burden, resulting in the company failed to carry out this business The main reason; In addition, the current decomposition of renewable resources technology is relatively backward, recycling and decomposition processing is also very professional and technical, to do a good job of decomposition requires a set of safe environmental protection measures. The recycling of household appliances on the market is a simple process of dismantling, and it can only peel off the waste materials such as metals and plastics in the electrical appliances, and change hands to earn a difference in sales. The profit of the company is too low to be able to operate.

According to Xiao Youming, president of the Shaanxi Electronic and Electrical Maintenance Association, “The small home appliance sales market has been booming in recent years. At the same time, the maintenance of small appliances accounts for 30% to 35% of the sales volume. The long-term recovery of small household appliances and the normalization of trade-in business are not only required for production, but also The importance attached to the sales unit requires the government's relevant regulatory authorities to impose restrictions in the form of laws and regulations, and at the same time, it must vigorously promote the recovery and decomposition of waste recycling systems in various places, and strengthen the public welfare propaganda to establish a recycling and decomposition system so that consumers can develop Damaged, old household appliances have good handling habits that are environmentally friendly and safe, such as waste recycling materials established in Xi’an, and it’s good to have recycling sites, but there are too few points and there is no reasonable layout, and we should increase the intensity. It is responsible for the production and sales units to increase the old-for-new-trade or recycling business, reduce consumer losses, and increase the speed of product replacement.”

In short, there are many types of small household appliances, and the amount of small household appliances is large. To achieve all-around recycling and decomposition, it is necessary for the government, the enterprise, and the society to make joint efforts.