Furniture "trade-in" Huimin also has hidden concerns

A few days ago, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce announced that it will try to implement the “old-for-new” policy for furniture for a period of one month from January 1 this year. In the meantime, when individual consumers purchase four types of furniture in the pilot furniture sales enterprise, the single piece of furniture will receive a “old-for-new” subsidy of up to 1,000 yuan. (November 1 "Jinghua Times")
The policy of “trade-in” has been implemented in the field of home appliances for a long time, which has effectively stimulated domestic demand, become a new growth point for related enterprises, and met the actual needs of upgrading and upgrading of public appliances, and achieved remarkable results. With the experience of “old-for-new” operation supervision of home appliances, furniture “old-for-new” can take many detours, such as shoddy, imaginary price increase, and complicated subsidy procedures. I believe that they can be better solved.
Like the “old-for-new” appliances, furniture “old-for-new” also has broad market prospects. Before the official launch of this policy in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other places have taken the lead. Some furniture companies and merchants in Beijing are also actively testing the water. The business scene can be described as hot. It has been reported that during the "Eleventh" Golden Week this year, a large-scale furniture supermarket in Beijing signed a contract for "old-for-new" furniture, and its turnover tripled.
Although furniture “old-for-new” is a model of “old-for-new” for home appliances, there are obvious differences between the two. There are hidden concerns: the recycling and reuse technology of old household appliances is relatively mature, and the furniture is made of ordinary wood except for some high-quality wood. The recycling value of furniture is very low, and there seems to be no other better treatment than the purchase of fuel and waste. The problem now is that due to the high cost of labor and logistics, few related companies recycle old furniture, resulting in thousands of old furniture piled up in the warehouse of the merchants, becoming a “hot potato”.
At present, the “old-for-new” furniture is in the pilot stage, and the contradiction of the disposal of used furniture is not very prominent. However, the space of the market and the needs of the public are huge. After the large-scale opening, this problem will not be solved. The policy of benefiting the people of “replacement of furniture” is either fascinating or difficult to sustain. Therefore, while we are opening the “inlet” of old furniture recycling, we must open up the “export” of reuse of old furniture and achieve a virtuous cycle of “trade-in”. While the relevant government departments are strengthening the research and development of waste furniture recycling technology, it is imperative to establish a reasonable mechanism for recycling old furniture and solve the problems of dismantling and utilizing old furniture.
As a business, there are actually many ways to try it. For example, in line with the construction of affordable housing that the country is vigorously promoting, the old furniture with less damage will be repaired and given to the needy homeowners; the cooperation with the rental companies will be strengthened, and the old furniture will be pushed to the rental market to achieve mutual benefit. Win-win; close contact with charities, give some used furniture with good functions to nursing homes, welfare homes and other institutions and other people in need; also learn from foreign practices, promote online or weekend community second-hand furniture transactions, promote old furniture Secondary use.
For those old furniture that have been selected and do not have the value of use, the relevant government management departments can not sit idly by, allowing recycling merchants or consumers to discard it as garbage, which is not only a waste of waste and cost, but also It is easy to cause environmental pollution. We should plan ahead, make good plans, give appropriate input, and carry out centralized treatment to maximize waste. In doing so, it is in line with the original intention of the "old-for-new" policy of furniture, and truly accomplishing this good thing and benefiting the people.

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