"When I graduated from college this year, I collected nearly 20 tons of old books, which were collected by waste paper."

Yesterday, in the Yubei campus of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Su Master said that he had a new income this year: pick out usable ones from old books that he collected from waste paper.

Every year, 30 tons of books are sold as waste paper.

Su's master's booth is located in the dormitory area of the West Yubei campus. More than 10 plastic baskets are lined up on the roadside. They are classified into law books, postgraduate entrance examination and civil service examination reference books, as well as English level 46 guidance books, and some old magazines.

Among them, teaching materials and related reference books account for the majority.

At 3 p.m., though it wasn't the peak of the class, there were still frequent visits to his booth.

"Many books are still available, and the price is much cheaper than buying new ones."

A second year old girl who was buried in front of the booth asked for a book.

On the booth of Su master, a foreign criminal law outline priced at 38 yuan is sold for 7 yuan, while another legal collection of 26 yuan is only 4 yuan, most of which are 8 or more.

"From the 20 tons of old books I collected, I picked out 7 tons and sold them very well, and the rest were sold to the recycle bin."

Master Su said.

Outside the school, at least two bookstores are selling old books, most of which are teaching materials and reference books.

In one of the bookstore's secondhand book counters, the reporter estimated that there were nearly 4000 books on the shelves.

Most of these books were bought from graduates at a very low price.

Master Su estimated that every year, when students graduated, at least 30 tons of old textbooks and reference books sold waste paper, "what a pity that those textbooks were thrown away."

It costs 400 yuan to order textbooks every year.

Shen Weiwei, a 04 grade student at the school of Journalism and communication, said that it would cost 400 yuan to order textbooks every year, and could not be taken away at graduation, only to sell some less important items.

He will soon face graduation and worry about books.

With each student having 30 pounds of textbooks, the teaching material of the more than 4000 graduates will exceed 60 tons.

It is understood that every year in May and June, schools will spontaneously form flea market, senior students will sell second-hand books and daily necessities to lower grade students.

"But at least 5 of the old textbooks are sold as waste paper."

Guo Lei, the 07 grader of Xi Zheng, said.

This is almost a common phenomenon in Universities in Chongqing.

Students suggest that textbooks should be converted to rents.

"If schools convert the unified teaching materials into rented textbooks, they will largely reduce waste."

Shen Weiwei said, "as far as I know, many foreign schools do this."

Shen Weiwei said that for textbooks with stable contents, schools can buy them uniformly, and then rent them to students. Students need to pay a certain amount of deposit.

After use, the students return the teaching materials to the school, and the school returns a certain proportion of the deposit according to the degree of depreciation, and the teaching material is left to the next student to continue to use.

Students who are willing to purchase textbooks can buy them by themselves.

"This saves students the cost of purchasing textbooks, and encourages students to take care of them when hiring textbooks."

Guo Lei said that although schools have various subsidies for poor students, teaching materials are still a heavy burden on poor students. If they can rent textbooks, they will be good news for needy students.

European teacher of the office of the West Office of teaching materials said that the current way of school implementation is that the required textbooks should be ordered according to the needs of teaching, and the elective materials should be purchased by students themselves.

As for the suggestion that students should change their purchase to renting and recycling, teacher ou can understand that, but the changes in textbooks are very different now, so the feasibility is not high.