Recover 40 million a year! What happened to the lighter at the airport security checkpoint?

Now, our living conditions are better, and the frequency of flying is much higher when traveling. Friends who have flown know that carrying dangerous goods with them can't pass the security check. Lighters are one of the most intercepted items in security inspection.

During airport security check, passengers are not allowed to carry lighters on board the plane, because lighters are dangerous and easy to explode and burn, and are not allowed to be carried in the closed environment of the plane. If you carry it with you, it will be confiscated during security check. Actually, it can't be called confiscation. In other words, the passengers handed it in themselves. When everyone enters the security check, there will be several baskets at the security check, which say "give up the fire" and hand in the lighters here.

According to previous data, more than 40 million lighters were collected in airport security inspection in China. Then, some friends will have questions. What should we do with so many lighters? Where will they end up?

When entering the security checkpoint, people will put lighters in baskets. However, due to the huge number of lighters discarded at the airport, the basket will soon be full. At this time, the staff will hand over the basket to the handover desk. Every night after the security check, people here will pour the lighters handed in that day into the vat. Usually, these lighters are discarded in several places:

First of all, the airport staff keep it for their own use. Before the lighter is sent to the transfer station and poured into the bucket, you can pick out the lighter with better quality for your own use or give it to your relatives and friends.

But there are so many lighters that it is impossible to take all of them. A large part of it will be used for other purposes. Generally, in the terminal, the airport will provide free lighters for passengers, and some of them will be used here. Most of the lighters you often see in the terminal are given by passengers.

In another case, someone at the airport will resell the lighters to some merchants, thus making a certain profit. At the exit of the airport, there will be shops selling all kinds of lighters, and the price is very low and the quality is very high. In fact, most of these lighters come from security checks.

The last part of the lighters flowed into the hotels and restaurants that cooperated with the airport, and the number handed in by the airport was too large. The airport gives lighters to hotels and restaurants in need, which will not waste resources and have good cooperation with hotels.