An elderly man in Shenyang, China lives by scavenging waste. (Photo/Retrieved from NetEase News)
In the impression of ordinary people, scavenging is usually the behavior of poor people, but there is an old man in Shenyang, China, who earned 2.7 million yuan (about 11.9 million New Taiwan dollars) from scavenging for 3 years. Something that fell below everyone’s glasses.
According to comprehensive Lu media reports, the old man directly took out 2.3 million yuan in cash to buy a house of his own, which aroused the curiosity of the outside world, what did he do? Why is there such a huge income? It turned out that the old man made a living by scavenging waste and found a mystery in the ordinary garbage. He only had a middle school education and knew that the easy-opening can was made of metal, so he wanted to know what kind of raw material it was, so he heated the easy-opening can and melted it. After that get a small metal nugget.
The metal block looked no different from an ordinary aluminum block, but the old man took it for identification and the result confirmed that the metal block was an aluminum-magnesium alloy. In the market, this metal can be sold for 18,000 yuan (about NT$79,000) a ton, but a ton of easy-open cans can only be sold for 5,000 yuan (about NT$22,000). The old man also found a business opportunity and specialized in picking up such items, but because of his limited ability, he began to buy easy-opening cans from his peers and bought them at a price higher than the market price. He could receive up to 130,000 easy-opening cans a day. , which is calculated to be 2.5 tons.
The old man later got the idea of smelting metal and used all his savings to build a factory dedicated to refining aluminum ingots. In less than 3 years, he extracted 300 tons of aluminum ingots, earning 2.7 million yuan, deducting some labor costs and fuel. Fei, netted 900,000 yuan, from an obscure old scavenger to a millionaire with no worries about living skills.
However, after the news was exposed, many netizens slapped them in the face, “It’s absolutely impossible, I remember reading this story before, but it was just replaced by Shenyang and the old man”, “Bragging!”, “False information, soda cans” Smelting into aluminum-magnesium alloy, is he an industrial boss?”, “Want to trick me into picking up cans?”