What should I do after replacing home appliances, cars, etc.? Looking at the cycle chain behind the "two new"

Yesterday (17th), the Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments issued a notice on the work of old-for-new automobiles in 2025, including fuel vehicles for the first year of the implementation of the National IV emission standards in the scope of old cars that can apply for scrapping and renewal subsidies. The subsidy standard is consistent with 2024. A subsidy of 20,000 yuan will be given to scrapped old cars for purchase of new energy passenger cars, and a subsidy of 15,000 yuan will be given to purchase fuel passenger cars with displacement of 2.0 liters or less.

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries have also issued relevant policies to further strengthen the implementation of large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods trade-in.

Where are the home appliances sold after the old exchange?

Trade in old to new drives consumption, but it also brings new problems. Have you ever encountered a new product in your home and don’t know how to deal with the old product? Today, let’s start with “recycling”.

Ms. Chen, a citizen: I haven’t heard of any storefront recycling this old home appliance, and I don’t know where it is available. I bought a sofa at home for more than 10,000 yuan at that time, so I can only throw it into the garbage dump. Citizen Dai Ruizhen: There is still a washing machine in my house placed on the balcony and has not been taken away. Because I bought the new ones, I put the old ones there, because it may cost 10 yuan or 20 yuan to ask someone to come.

The reporter randomly interviewed some citizens, and many citizens said that the current recycling point is difficult to find, and even if the recycling price is found, it is very low.

Take Beijing as an example, we used big data search to find that there were about 160 small old home appliance recycling outlets in 2023, and there was almost no increase in the whole year of last year. However, in the first 11 months of last year, the cumulative number of people in Beijing who received the old-for-new subsidy for home appliances exceeded 2.33 million.

Offline recycling is difficult, what about online recycling? The reporter opened the "old for new" campaign initiated by a certain platform and placed an order for a water heater product. Although you can enjoy preferential policies for purchasing new subsidies, when checking out, the old machine can only be deducted by ten yuan. The platform said that the reason for the low recycling price is the high cost of manual homepage and dismantling of machines, and the residual value of the eliminated products is difficult to cover the cost of manual homepage.

Feng Xiangzhao, researcher at the Institute of Energy Saving, CIDI Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: The current recycling system has not kept up with the growth rate of the front-end, and the scale of enterprises in the industry is generally small and the concentration is not high. Online platforms have not yet been uniformly and standardized pricing and management, especially in rural areas and urban-rural junctions, the cost of going to the door is even higher.