Chen Wang and others are driving in the town. It's daytime now. Zhou Xiao can see a lot of garbage piled up on the courtyard dam outside the bungalows built on the roads on both sides of the village. In the yard, many people turn over something in the garbage dump with their bare hands. Zhou Xiao can clearly see that the villagers pick up valuable garbage such as metal and plastic bottles from the garbage dump and put them together, And some worthless garbage is stacked next to it.

Among the people who turned over the garbage, Zhou Xiao also saw a lot of children. Now it's the weekend. The students come home after school and are also helping their parents do such work.

Are the villagers who turn to the garbage living in poverty without money? Of course not.

In the yard under the bungalow, Zhou Xiao also saw several luxury cars, and even the latest green liquid new energy vehicle of the origin group was parked in the yard of one family.

This shows a problem. Recycling garbage is not only a means for these villagers to make a living, but also a means for them to get rich.

Chen Wang let the driver drive the car more and more remote in the town.

At this time, Zhou Xiao smelled a strange smell.

The air in Yanjing in winter is very poor. There is often a strange smell in the air, but now the smell is more pungent.

Zhou Xiao frowned, and Wang Yulan couldn't help tightening the PM2.5 mask she was wearing on her face.

"What's the smell?" Wang Yulan couldn't help asking, "do you feel comfortable? Are there any enterprises with serious pollution discharge nearby?"

Seeing this, Zhang Ting said: "over the past decade, Yanjing has been more and more strict in environmental protection. Many heavily polluting enterprises in Yanjiao have been moved to other provinces. There will be no highly polluting enterprises here."

Chen Wang added: "president Zhang is right. There are no heavily polluting enterprises in Yanjiao. The smell is that the villagers are extracting some valuable metals from electronic components with strong acid. "

The car drove to a village road. Chen Wang stopped the car and invited everyone to get off.

We walked more than 300 meters and saw people covered in hills and abandoned mounds.

When Zhou Xiao's people still wanted to go forward, they were stopped by Chen Wang.

Chen Wang pointed to a large residential house in the distance and said: "the most valuable recycled waste is those electronic accessories, because there are many precious metals, including gold, silver, copper and so on. Almost all recycled electronic waste will be treated here, dissolved by small workshop factories, extracted and sold."

"Almost every family in the village is doing this, so it's difficult to get rid of it. Whenever environmental protection personnel come to inspect it and find it in the village, they will immediately notify here. Everyone will be divided into parts and it's difficult to be found."

"How rich we Yanjing people are. This wealth is reflected not only in the ordinary consumption of Yanjing people, but also in the garbage thrown by Yanjing people. In other cities, it's hard to find old mobile phones in the garbage. It's common to find old mobile phones in the garbage of Yanjing people. Many times, you will find old tablet laptops and so on. "

"Don't underestimate these villagers. They are people who know the goods. They are clear about the waste electronic products. What motherboards and chips can be recycled and reused, and what motherboards and chips can't be used. They can only be used to extract heavy metals."

Chen Wang also said reluctantly: "these villagers do not stop the garbage truck and force the garbage truck to send the garbage to them, but the masters who transport the garbage have an interest in these villagers. They will send the garbage here first, let the villagers turn it over, and then take the rest of the garbage to our garbage treatment plant."

What can unite people? In addition to ideals and beliefs, of course, it is interests.

People in the village can earn a lot of wealth through garbage recycling. This wealth can maintain the expenses of the family and make their life very comfortable. Of course, we are not willing to give up.

If you recycle a little garbage at your door every day, you can easily make a lot of money, which is much better than working outside.

If Zhou Xiao were a villager in the village, he would like to live such a life.

Chen Wang said somewhat speechlessly, "because these garbage collection and disposal stations scattered in residents' houses are not factories, but family workshop work, so it is difficult to manage. In addition, every household in the village depends on this for survival. Don't you want to cause contradictions by letting Yanjiao manage and reduce the income of the villagers?"

Later, Chen Wang did not say that in the end, including the waste treatment plant set up by the origin group in Yanjiao and the relevant departments in Yanjiao, they actually turned a blind eye.

This is also a fierce contradiction between environmental protection and villagers' survival.

When talking about environmental protection, we must not talk about environmental protection while blowing heating and drinking strong tea in the office and pointing to several environmental protection plans on the table. Instead, we must go deep into the grass-roots level to understand the basic situation of the grass-roots level.

Similarly, in addition to waste treatment plants, there will be such things in the field of power generation and construction engineering.

Many workers in power plants have to rely on this job to support their families, and many workers on construction sites have to work on construction sites to support their families. This is the biggest conflict between environmental protection, economic development and social people's livelihood.

After receiving such news, Zhou Xiao didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

In fact, the villagers in the village and the waste treatment plant of the origin group complement each other. The villagers in the village have to be valuable waste, such as precious metals, recyclable plastics and some waste cardboard.

The origin group's waste treatment plant can deal with organic waste, non recyclable domestic waste, such as residue, leftovers and so on.

Zhou Xiao thought deeply about how to combine the two.

Not far away, a seven year old child came to his mother with a small laptop and said, "Mom! Here you are. "

The young mother quickly took the laptop in her hand. After checking the model, she quickly took the computer apart with tools, and then disassembled the screen motherboard.

The living conditions of this family are good. It has built a two-story small Western-style building and a car parked in the yard. It can be seen that doing garbage recycling makes the family's life secure and even rich. Children can help their parents do what they can when they are not studying.

According to the current income division, this family should be regarded as entering the middle class. They work regardless of high and low, as long as they can make money.

The picture is actually very warm. Compared with many rural areas in the west, the villagers in Yanjiao are very happy.

In rural areas in the west, in order to create better conditions for their children, parents will go north or south to work in first tier cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai stock market and Yangcheng.

This will make the children become left behind children, not in the rural areas of Yanjiao. At least the parents will accompany the children, which is conducive to the healthy growth of the children.

Zhang Ting said reluctantly, "this is the reason why our waste treatment plant has not been able to operate at full capacity."