Compared with whitelist recyclers, the non-whitelist small workshops are able to offer twice the prices of whitelist recyclers when purchasing raw materials, by sacrificing certain environmental protection and safety costs, to grab as much market share as possible, according to the public information of autohome.com.cn.
For whitelist recyclers, the cost primarily consists of raw materials, fuel, environmental protection, auxiliary materials, labor, equipment depreciation, battery dismantling, workshop renting, product test, power, and others, among which the raw material cost usually takes up 75-90% of the total subject to raw material price volatility and recycling routes, based on open sources.
The small workshops, on the contrary, mostly report an 89% share of raw material cost, as they almost spend nothing on environmental protection, product test, and battery dismantling.
Written by Aggie Hu, huchenying@mysteel.com
