Chen Wang and everyone were driving in the town. It was daytime now. Zhou Xiao could see a lot of garbage piled up on the yard outside the bungalows built on the roads on both sides of the village and town. There were many people in the yard rumbling over something in the garbage pile with bare hands. Zhou Xiao could clearly see the villagers picking out valuable garbage such as metal and plastic bottles from the garbage pile and put them together, while some valuable garbage piled up next to it.

Among the people who were overturning the garbage, Zhou Xiao also saw many children. It was the weekend. The students returned home after school and were also helping their parents do such a job.

Do these villagers who found the garbage live in poverty and have no money? Of course not.

In the yard under the bungalow, Zhou Xiao also saw several luxury cars, and one of them even parked the latest green liquid new energy vehicle from Origin Group in the yard.

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 asked the driver's car to go further and further away in the town.

At this time, Zhou Xiao smelled a strange smell.

The air in Yanjing in winter is very poor, and there are often strange smells in the air, but the smell is more pungent now.

Zhou Xiao frowned, and Wang Yulan couldn't help but tighten the PM2.5 mask on her face.

"What does this taste like?" Wang Yulan couldn't help asking: "I feel so uncomfortable. Are there any serious pollution discharge companies nearby?"

Seeing this, Zhang Ting said: "In the past decade, Yanjing has been increasingly strict with environmental protection. Many severely polluted enterprises in Yanjiao have been moved to other provinces, and there will be no high-pollution enterprises here."

Chen Wang added: "Mr. Zhang is right, there are no heavily polluting enterprises in Yanjiao. This smell is the villagers using strong acid to extract some valuable metals from electronic components."

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

Everyone walked more than 300 meters to see the houses hidden among the hills and abandoned soil piles.

When Zhou Xiao's people were still trying to move forward, Chen Wang stopped him.

Chen Wang pointed to a large residential house in the distance and said, "The most valuable thing in recycling garbage is those electronic accessories, because there are many precious metals, including gold, silver, copper, etc. All the recycled electronic waste will be disposed of here. After being dissolved in a small workshop-style factory, the precious metals are extracted and sold."

"Almost every household in the village is doing this, so it is difficult to be knocked out. Whenever an environmentally friendly person comes to check and finds it out for the people at the entrance of the village, he will immediately notify the place, and everyone will break it into pieces and it is difficult to be found."

"We Yanjing people are so rich. This kind of wealth is not only reflected in the daily consumption of Yanjing people, but also in the garbage thrown by Yanjing people. It is difficult for you to flip old phones in the garbage dump in other cities. It is common for us to flip old phones in the garbage dump of Yanjing people. Many times, you will flip old tablets and laptops, etc."

"Don't underestimate these villagers. They are people who know the goods. Those used electronic products, motherboards and chips can be recycled and then used again, and motherboards and chips cannot be used and can only be used to extract heavy metals. They are clear about it."

Chen Wang said helplessly: "These villagers did not stop the garbage truck and forced the garbage truck to deliver the garbage carried to them. Instead, the masters who transport garbage had an interest in these villagers and would send the garbage here first, so that the villagers could turn over the remaining garbage to our garbage disposal plant."

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

People in the village can earn a considerable amount of wealth through garbage recycling. This wealth can maintain family expenses and make their lives very comfortable. Of course, everyone is unwilling to give up.

Recycling a little garbage at your doorstep every day can easily make a lot of money, which is much better than working outside.

If Zhou Xiao was a villager in the village, he would be willing to live such a life.

Chen Wang said speechlessly: "Because these garbage recycling and garbage disposal stations scattered in residents' residences are not factories, but family workshop-style work, so it is difficult to manage. In addition, every household in the village relies on this to survive. You said that if Yanjiao manages and reduces the income of villagers, isn't this going to cause conflicts?"

Chen Wang didn't say the following words. In the end, including the garbage disposal factory set up by 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 the survival of villagers.

When talking about environmental protection issues, you must not talk about environmental protection by blowing heating in the office, drinking strong tea, pointing at a few environmental protection plans on the table, but you must go deep into the grassroots to understand the basic situation of the grassroots.

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

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

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

In fact, the villagers in the village and the garbage disposal plants of the Origin Group are complementary. The villagers in the village must be valuable garbage, such as precious metal, recyclable plastic and some used cardboard, etc.

What the Origin Group waste treatment plant can handle is organic waste, non-recyclable domestic waste, such as residue and leftover rice.

Zhou Xiao fell into deep thought about how to combine the two.

Not far away, a seven-year-old child walked up to his mother with a small laptop and said in a whisper: "Mom! Give it."

The young mother quickly took the laptop in her hand, checked the model, and then took a quick look at the computer with tools, then disassembled the screen motherboard and other screens.

The family has good living conditions. They built a two-story western-style building and a small car parked in the yard. This shows that the garbage recycling industry has made the family's life even richer. Children can help their parents do something within their ability while studying.

If divided according to current income, this family should have entered the middle class, and their work is not limited to the high or 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 order to create better conditions for their children, parents in rural areas will go north or south to work in first-tier cities such as Yanjing, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Yangcheng.

This will make children a left-behind child, but not in rural Yanjiao. At least parents will be with their children, which will help their children grow up healthily.

Zhang Ting said helplessly: "This is why our garbage disposal plant has never been able to operate at full capacity."
Chapter completed!