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Chapter 203 202 Good news for sanitation workers, Zhetong cleans up fallen leaves in urban greening

Binhai’s environmental protection department is naturally very happy about this.

After all, the fallen leaves cleared from the streets can only be treated as garbage. Now that there are companies taking them in, their expenses at the landfill can be reduced.

In addition, Zhetong Electric Power has made it clear that it is impossible to let sanitation workers collect fallen leaves for free. How can they work for you if they have no money?

The sanitation workers can earn some extra money, and their environmental protection department is also happy to make this happen.

So the two sides soon reached a cooperation intention on this matter.

……

Su Damao is 56 years old this year. When he was young, he came to Binhai from a small place to work. Later, his children were quite capable and both settled down in Binhai.

Unlike what most people imagine, that those who can settle in Binhai from other places are promising people, his children are very ordinary people, and the house they bought in Binhai is just a small one in the suburbs.

Living in such a big city is still very stressful, so Su Damao naturally does not have the conditions to enjoy a leisurely life now.

They don’t know how much they can help their children, but Su Damao and his wife just want to not add burden to their children, so they both found a lot of work to do before.

But things are a little better now. Su Damao's wife works as a dormitory manager at Binhai University of Technology, and she earns about two thousand to three thousand yuan a month.

I work in Binhai Sanitation.

Although he was sweeping the streets, Su Damao didn't think there was anything shameful about it. After all, it would be shameful if no one was there to sweep the streets and they were a mess.

Besides, Su Damao himself has no academic qualifications or skills, so he can only do manual labor. But as he gets older, he can no longer do such manual labor, so he took a job as a sanitation worker.

They don't earn much but their work is hard. The only good thing is that it's not a lot of heavy physical work.

At least Su Damao is still very satisfied overall. The only thing he hopes is that his monthly salary of more than 2,000 yuan can increase a little bit.

In this way, maybe I can have a little extra money to make my life a little better.

After all, after deducting the cost of living, he now earns more than 2,000 yuan a month and there is basically nothing left. If he can increase his income by even 100 or 200 yuan, he will stop rolling his own cigarettes and can afford cheap packaged cigarettes.

As a smoker, smoking cigarettes without filters is really irritating to the throat and lungs.

If given a choice, Su Damao would still like to buy boxes of cigarettes, the cheapest ones would be fine.

It is not like now. When his colleagues as sanitation workers occasionally ask him why he smokes cigarettes, he can only smile and answer, "I am used to it. Cigarettes are too weak. My cigarettes are strong."

Although they get paid little, Su Damao and his colleagues do a lot of work.

Early in the morning, as usual, Su Damao started cleaning the streets with his colleagues at five o'clock. People in this line of work don't have much hostility, but there's nothing they can do even if they are hostile. After all, they are all old men and women and no one can mess with them.

The designated area was cleaned around five o'clock, almost six o'clock.

At this time, some people who got up early and needed to rush to work or school walked out of their homes to the street. Sometimes, when the street was cleaned up, you could still see Su Damao and others.

But after six o'clock, around seven, eight or nine o'clock, more and more people started to arrive, and they were greeted by clean and tidy streets.

Of course, no one cares why it is so clean and tidy.

It was time for Su Damao and his friends to take a break, have breakfast or lie down for a while at the street garbage station.

……

The same was true today. After cleaning the area at hand, the people in Su Damao's area went to the street garbage disposal station and then went into the room to rest.

As usual, everyone took out the prepared breakfast and started eating.

Most of them are steamed buns, which are not very nutritious but can fill you up. Or they just buy a steamed dumpling or something. There is no other way. They are outsourced employees of the sanitation system and are all from the sanitation company, and their salary is so little.

Of course, with Su Damao's conditions, he naturally just followed the crowd and ate the steamed buns with his own tea. After resting for a while, he waited until the normal working hours when the management staff arrived.

Generally at this time the managers will hold a regular meeting, criticize those who are responsible for not cleaning the area so cleanly, then praise those who did a good job today, and arrange today's procedures.

It's like this every day anyway. Su Damao feels like his ears are callused from listening to these words.

But today was different. After saying this, the manager of the sanitation company did not leave, but continued to speak.

"Okay, let me tell you something else. Now our Binhai Environmental Sanitation Department has a cooperation with Zhetong Electric Power..."

As Su Damao and the others heard about this.

After you finish the cleaning work, you can collect the fallen leaves in your spare time. They have to collect the fallen leaves anyway, but now you can just wash the car separately.

Then collect the fallen leaves apart from the garbage and when you have enough to fill a truck, contact the people at the Zhetong Electric Power Company and exchange them for money.

Ten dollars a car.

After this matter was spoken out, Su Damao and the others' faces changed instantly, and they all became excited.

Ten yuan for a truckload of fallen leaves may sound a bit low, but it is a lot for sanitation workers. Ten yuan is enough for a day's food, especially in autumn.

We may collect more than one car that day. If we are lucky, we may collect three, four or even five cars.

This means that everyone can earn some extra money in the future without affecting their work. For many people, this amount of money may not be worth their while.

But it is very important for people like Su Damao.

With this money, he can do a lot of things, at least he can go to the store to buy cigarettes in the future.

At this time, the manager also noticed everyone's excitement and spoke next.

"Don't be too happy, let me be frank..."

That is the requirement of Zhetong Electric Power. There must be no garbage mixed in with the fallen leaves. If such garbage is found, the sanitation worker who transported the fallen leaves will be directly arrested and he will not be able to earn this extra income in the future.

In addition, they are not allowed to actively destroy urban greening for the sake of fallen leaves. This requirement is strict and they will be fired if discovered.

After Su Damao and the others finished speaking, they all nodded seriously. They were so excited that they couldn't wait to return to their own area to collect fallen leaves.

Normally, the fallen leaves also have to be swept up, but now there is just one more step, and the garbage has to be picked up separately. But for the extra income of ten dollars per small cart, they are all happy to do it.

The most important thing is that Zhetong Electric Power considered that if the job of collecting fallen leaves was handed over to the sanitation company, it might be subcontracted layer by layer. At that time, Zhetong Electric Power offered 10 yuan per cart, but the price might be 50% off when it came to the sanitation workers. But the person from the sanitation company just said that Zhetong Electric Power was responsible for coordinating this matter.

After they collect the fallen leaves, they contact the Zhetong Electric Power vehicle, which will come to collect them and pay on the spot.

No one takes a commission, so Su Damao and his colleagues are still very enthusiastic.

When the meeting was over, everyone walked out of the sanitation station and went to the areas they were responsible for.

……

Su Damao is pretty lucky. The area he is responsible for has a relatively high greening rate, so there are more fallen leaves than in other places.

First he got his own cart out, then connected it to the public water pipe and rinsed it clean.

Finally, to prevent the fallen leaves from getting wet, Su Damao took a clean towel and wiped the inside of the car to ensure that it was clean, and then pushed the car into the area.

There were a lot of fallen leaves under the big trees on both sides of the road. This time, Su Damao took out a broom and collected them.

What is different from usual is that you have to keep an eye on the collection process. If there is garbage, you have to screen it out. In addition, after collecting a pile, Su Damao will shake it to shake out the dust and some small gravel inside.

Finally, he put them into his own cart. In this way, Su Damao collected a whole cart in just one morning.

Then, excitedly, he took out his cell phone and dialed the taxi number of Zhetong Power that his supervisor had mentioned to be responsible for this matter.

"Hello, are you the leaf-collecting truck from Zhetong Electric Power?"

After making the call, Su Damao pushed the car to the designated location given by the person on the phone.

When I got here, I saw several colleagues, who were all pushing their carts together.

When they saw Su Damao, they greeted him with a smile. They could earn some extra money, which was better than collecting waste paper and bottles, so everyone was happy.

"Lao Su, this is great. We can collect all the items in one morning."

"Hehe, it's not as good as your park. Your park is the most popular right now."

While we were chatting, many colleagues from nearby came over one after another, and they all came pushing carts.

Most of them are like Su Damao, of course there are also a small number of cunning and dishonest ones.

……

As more than a dozen people gathered, the car of Zhetong Electric Power also arrived at the scene.

Compared with the power supply truck, the one that came this time was a van, which is a bit like a garbage truck, and it also has a machine at the back that can compress and collect waste. However, the words "Zhetong Electric Power" are still written on the outside, but there is also an additional line of "Zhetong Environmental Protection".

Seeing the car coming, Su Damao and the others became excited.

The car stopped and then the staff of Zhetong Electric Power wearing green work clothes got out of the car. For this matter, the group also established a new department, Zhetong Environmental Protection, and recruited a group of employees to be responsible for this matter.

"Everyone lines up, collects the goods one car at a time, and then gets paid."

Everyone lined up in two minutes, and Su Damao, who was standing in a good position, was the first one at the front.

After pushing the cart to the front, the staff of Zhetong Electric Power took out an iron hook and put it directly into Su Damao's cart to hook out some fallen leaves.

After checking, there was no problem. There was no garbage and the food was large enough and clean enough.

So the staff of Zhetong Electric Power directly pushed Su Damao's cart to the rear of the car, and then lifted the car up and dumped it down together.

As a truckload of fallen leaves fell down, the staff in the car started the machine. The fallen leaves were slowly compacted and then put into the interior of the car.

"Uncle, thank you for your hard work. The quality is good and it is relatively clean. Here is the bill, please sign it. Also, here is the cash."

As he spoke, the staff member handed over a brand new ten-yuan note. Considering that most of the sanitation workers are elderly and some of them may not use smartphones, Zhetong Electric Power adopts a full cash payment mode and settles the bill on the spot.

After signing his name on the list, Su Damao happily received the ten yuan.

He had already made up his mind to go to a convenience store or something to buy a pack of the cheapest cigarettes to smoke. With this extra money, he would never have to roll cigarettes again anyway.

After pushing the empty car away, Su Damao did not rush to leave, but sat down not far away.

I've been busy for half a day and haven't had enough rest yet. I'll take a break before leaving and wait for some familiar colleagues.

After Su Damao finished, other people came up with their carts one after another. However, when some of them saw the detailed inspection by the staff of Zhetong Electric Power, their expressions were not as natural as at the beginning.

When it was the fourth person's turn, the staff of Zhetong Environmental Protection put the iron hook into the pile of fallen leaves, and found that it was completely fluffy. They even put some branches in it to support it. So it looked like a full truck from the outside, but in fact it was probably only half the amount of fallen leaves that Su Damao and his team had.

"Your leaves are too fluffy. To put it bluntly, you don't have enough fallen leaves. Go pick up some branches and other things for me and I'll buy them at half price. I'm also warning you. If you do this again, we at Zhetong can block you and stop buying your fallen leaves."

Hearing this, the man wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded.

"Okay, I'll go pick out the branches now and never do that again."

By the time he pushed the car to the side to pick branches, several more cars had passed by. He recognized the wife of the tenth car, Su Damao.

He was a sanitation worker from the next street. The old man was cheating when he was playing cards with a few people and the cards were worth a few cents. Even after being caught, he was still very stubborn. In short, he was a sneaky and sneaky person on weekdays.

This time, when the car he pushed stopped in front of the staff of Zhetong Environmental Protection, the staff frowned.

Wearing gloves and using an iron hook to hook out some leaves, the staff member took a look and then shook his head.

"You just want to save trouble by sweeping up a bunch of fallen leaves without sorting them out. Moreover, this cart is too dirty, and the leaves inside are dirty too. Look, there are even tissues on the leaves, and some of the wet leaves make me suspect they were fished out of the stinky ditch. We at Zhetong cannot collect this cart."

Hearing this, the old guy became anxious and parked the car sideways.

"You Zhetong said you wanted to buy this stuff, and I worked so hard to buy a whole truckload for you. Now you say you don't want it anymore. Who can I complain to?"

"You have to take it! Otherwise I won't do it today. Aren't you bullying me?"

Hearing the noise, Su Damao also frowned. This old guy was probably going to make a fuss and the staff would be in trouble.

(End of this chapter)