Sail across the sea

Chapter 173 It's up to you to decide
The wastewater from the paint factory is naturally discharged directly into the small ditch behind the factory.

"This ditch leads to the Zhangtai River, and then it flows into the sea."

Standing by the drain of the paint factory, Chen Linfa introduced the situation to Gao Fan.The Zhangtai River he was talking about was a small river flowing through Nanhao Commune.Such a small river is very common in the south.

Great!
Gao Fan looked at the withered and yellow weeds on both sides of the gutter, and felt countless regrets in his heart.

Traditional antifouling coatings use some toxic chemical substances and resins to paint on the bottom of the ship to achieve the antifouling effect by killing marine organisms that try to adsorb on the bottom of the ship. After the 20s, with the increase of human awareness of environmental protection, relevant international organizations put forward initiatives to limit the use of toxic paints, and the paint industry began to study various non-toxic or low-toxic paints to replace traditional paints.

At this point in the early 20s, the use of toxic paints had not been strictly restricted, and the formula Gao Fan provided to Chen Xingquan belonged to this type of paint.

Chen Xingquan knew about the poisonous paint. When selling paint, he would repeatedly explain to customers to avoid human and animal poisoning when using it.As for the impact of this kind of toxic paint being discharged into the sea, everyone doesn't care. The ocean is so big, what impact can a little bit of toxic paint have?
Don't you see, one of our "strips of water" can even discharge nuclear waste water directly into the sea, or where did those Ultraman children galloping on the prairie with a weight of 50 kilograms come from after more than ten years?

Of course Gao Fan is aware of future generations' environmental protection, but he also knows not to be ahead of schedule.At this time, toxic paints were also used abroad, and the most mainstream organotin paints had a far greater impact on the marine environment than the cuprous oxide paints produced by Gao Fan and Chen Xingquan.

Gao Fan is not the kind of person who doesn't know how to adapt.

But it's one thing to discharge paint into the sea, and quite another to discharge wastewater into rivers on land.The ocean has a strong enough self-cleaning ability, and it is not a problem to digest this amount of cuprous oxide.However, the fragile ecology of the land cannot withstand the pollution of the wastewater from the paint factory.

"Our waste water is poisonous. You can see that the grass on both sides of the ditch has dried up."

Gao Fan said to Chen Linfa and his son.

"I know about this." Chen Lin nodded.

He pointed to the paddy field not far away, and said: "The rice has been harvested this year, and it is not clear whether our waste water will affect the crops. This is what I think, if the crops on this ditch are affected next year If there is any impact, we will take out a little money to compensate everyone."

"No." Gao Fan shook his head.

"No?" Chen Lin was taken aback, not understanding what Gao Fan meant.

"Gao...Gao Fan, if you lose money, you must pay for it. This is the rule here. By the way, the compensation is actually not much, just to make fun of it."

Ke Shuilong explained next to him.

When he thought about it, Gao Fan probably couldn't bear the compensation, so he vetoed Chen Linfa's intention.

"Xiaolong, what nonsense are you talking about!" Chen Linfa glared at Ke Shuilong, "Is Gao Fan the kind of person who cares about everything?"

After finishing speaking, he turned to Gao Fan again and asked, "Gao Fan, what do you mean when you say no?"

Gao Fan said: "Uncle Chen, it's not just a matter of paying some money. The waste water discharged by our factory is poisonous. The water seeps into the ground, and the crops that grow will also be poisonous. If people eat it, it will affect their health. .Moreover, the toxicity remains in the soil, and there is almost no way to remove it. After a long time, the land will be useless.”

"Is it that serious?" Chen Xingquan's eyes widened.

Chen Linfa thought for a while, nodded, and said, "This matter is really not about Gao Fan scaring people. I have heard people say that there are several chemical factories in our province that have been in operation for more than ten years. The land next to them is It can no longer be planted."

Gao Fan said: "Yeah, I'm also worried about this. Now we set up a factory and make a little money, but we destroy the surrounding land, and future generations will scold our mother."

"This is difficult." Chen Xingquan said distressedly.

"It's not that powerful, is it?" Ke Shuilong said, "Now there are so many factories in Yanzhou engaged in chemical industry, if we talk about destroying land, everyone is destroying it, not many of us."

Chen Linfa frowned and said, "This is indeed a difficult matter. We can't stop producing just because of this, right?"

Gao Fan said: "It's nothing difficult. In the end, it was my fault. I forgot about the environmental protection equipment. Whether it's waste gas or waste water, they can all be disposed of. Our waste water is mainly some chemical Solvent, plus cuprous oxide. Chemical solvents can be decomposed and discharged, and cuprous oxide can be recycled.”

"How much does the environmental protection equipment you mentioned cost?" Chen Xingquan asked.

"For a simple one, a few thousand yuan is enough. For a better effect, it may cost [-] to [-] yuan." Gao Fan said.

He didn't know much about the price of chemical equipment in this era. He discussed the manufacturing of chemical cleaning agent production equipment with the engineers of Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory some time ago, and learned a lot of knowledge, so he also had a basis for valuation.

"Xingquan, what do you think?"

Chen Linfa looked at Chen Xingquan and asked him for advice.

With Chen Linfa's experience, Gao Fan could already hear the other party's thoughts from a few words.

With regard to environmental protection, Chen Linfa is somewhat vacillating.

On the one hand, as an old farmer, he is very sensitive to the waste water destroying the fields. He feels that he can't do this. If the fields are destroyed, his children and grandchildren will poke his back.

But on the other hand, as Ke Shuilong said, there are so many small chemical factories in Yanzhou, and everyone is discharging waste gas and waste water. No one cares, why should I care?
If it is something that can be done easily, Chen Linfa will certainly not refuse to do it.But Gao Fan said that a set of equipment would cost several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan, and Chen Linfa could hear Gao Fan's preference for a plan of tens of thousands of yuan, so he had to hesitate.

Tens of thousands of yuan, a few years ago, was almost the amount that the whole village could earn in a year.In the past few years, everyone has made some money in business, and can afford tens of thousands of yuan.But he is used to being poor, and he is really unable to make up his mind to ask him to spend tens of thousands of yuan all at once, just to solve an environmental protection problem that everyone doesn't care about.

Chen Xingquan understood what his father meant, he hesitated for a moment, turned his head to Gao Fan, and said:
"Gao Fan, my father and I are both farmers, so we don't understand these things. It's up to you to decide. Our factory can afford tens of thousands of dollars, so it's half a month's less profit. "

(End of this chapter)