Regular and fixed-point garbage disposal is now a daily must-do homework for every Shanghai household. However, when throwing wet garbage, you have to break the bag, which may get dirty hands and clothes, which makes many people have a bit of a headache...
Don't worry, a junior high school student in Shanghai invented an "artifact" specifically for this situation, called "cabbage pull bag" - anti-odor, no broken bag, wet garbage, no dirty hands, a mention and a pull, easy!
What's even more remarkable is that this small invention has now obtained a patent number and received more than two million orders! Let's go check it out with Dongdong
Throw wet trash to stain your clothes
The idea of inventing garbage bags came to mind
Shi Yuan is a student in the eighth (5th) class of Shanghai Wenlai Middle School, and "cabbage lala bag" is his idea.
Since July 1, 2019, the Shanghai Municipal Household Waste Management Regulations have been officially implemented, and Shanghai has taken the lead in the country to enter the era of comprehensive subdivision of dry and wet garbage, however, when throwing wet garbage, broken bags often bring trouble. When the bag is broken, residents are always prone to get their hands wet, and the garbage room that can provide handwashing is not fully covered.
Shi Yuan also encountered the same problem. "Once when I went to throw the wet garbage, I lifted it up, too hard, and a bag of wet garbage fell on the clothes, mainly on the legs of the pants. It was still a rainy day, and the rain and dirt stuck together..."
The experience of staining clothes and pants when breaking the bag made Shi Yuan have the idea of optimizing the garbage bag. He carefully observed that when the bag is broken, it will produce a peculiar smell, everyone always has wet hands after throwing away the wet garbage, and sometimes accidentally touches the contents, which are sticky and somewhat disgusting.
"Could you invent a garbage bag that you can break your own?" He told him this idea to two good friends- Feng Zhendong of Shanghai Xianxia Senior High School and Liao Yuande of Shanghai No. 2 Junior High School, and the friends were very supportive, and the parents also helped to make suggestions.
△ Shi Yuan and Grandpa are studying garbage bags
Version 1.0 of the "cliff-like" garbage bag was born
At present, it has been upgraded 4 iterations
After many experiments and repeated studies, in July 2019, the 1.0 version of the "cliff-like" garbage bag came into being: a dumping auxiliary belt, one end is easy to tear, the other end is fixed, and the lifting dumps the garbage.
Some residents have proposed in actual use that if there is not much wet garbage, it is a pity to discard a bag, can it be used repeatedly? As a result, version 2.0 of the "repeated sticking" garbage bag came out, which can be repeatedly pasted to the dumping auxiliary belt.
Due to the need for repeated sticking, a lot of glue was used at first, and when tearing this dumping belt, the plastic bag may be torn, so the 3.0 version of the "dispensing type repeated sticking" garbage bag came out of the oven to dispense the pouring belt, rather than choosing a belt to stick all to the bag.
Later, in order to reduce costs and achieve mass production, the 4.0 version of the "dispensing type repeated sticking + flat design" garbage bag came out in November, and a dumping bag can easily tie the plastic bag.
Between the opening and the bottom of the 4.0 version of the garbage bag, there is a longitudinal "waist seal", close to the end of the opening, a pull is open, close to the end of the bottom, extra strong, when the bag is broken, just pull the "waist seal" off, you can single-handedly "lift" the wet garbage up, easily complete the broken bag.
"Cabbage la la bag" has now applied for an invention patent, version 5.0 is also in preparation, the next step, Shi Yuan plans to put every plastic bag in life with "la la strip", so that any bag can become a "functional" garbage bag, he is confident that "la la strip" become his second patent.
"Cabbage Lala Bag" was well received
The total sales have reached hundreds of thousands of yuan
The reporter learned that as soon as the "cabbage lala bag" came out, it was greatly praised in the community, and many aunts and mothers praised Shi Yuan after using it, and after each community public welfare propaganda, there were always residents who took the initiative to ask where there was a sale.
Shi Yuan's Wenlai Middle School also specially applied for a batch of garbage bags with school logos as souvenirs for the school. Principal Bai Bin said: "Students use their spare time to innovate, we are very encouraging, I appreciate Shi Yuan. ”
The first production of "cabbage lala bags" spent 10,000 yuan, shi yuan's father Shi Jun out of his own pocket, originally only wanted to give away for free at the family committee activities and community activities, but could not stand the more and more people who asked for purchase later...
Later, "cabbage la bag" has WeChat mini program and Taobao store, 1 pack of 30 "cabbage la la bag" priced at 10.80 yuan, very popular, now has more than 2 million orders, the total sales of hundreds of thousands of yuan. Shi Jun said that he had no idea that this small invention would be so popular.
△ "Cabbage Lala Bags" has achieved mass production, and this machine can produce 72,000 garbage bags per day
△ Orders are constantly flowing, and Shi Yuan's home is now a courier transfer station
In the process of invention, Shi Jun also insisted that Shi Yuan communicate with the manufacturer himself. It was this process that made Shi Yuan later take the initiative to consider how to reduce production costs, and he also became a year-old friend with the person in charge of the production plant surnamed Li.
Kudos to Shi Yuan!