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On many e-commerce platforms, there are very puzzling waste transactions, such as "empty milk cartons, cut open, cleaned and dried, 28 yuan for 100, free shipping; empty pen refills, truly used up, no ink, 100, 21.14 yuan", etc. The reason why this is puzzling and surprising is that a little understanding will reveal that this is not only a niche market with relatively strong supply and demand, but also that there are some hidden and extraordinary demands behind it. In retrospect, it turns out that school education has encountered the embarrassment of "starting with good intentions and ending with falsification".

Common sense tells us that, except for those engaged in the business of buying and selling waste, ordinary citizens will not spend money to buy waste products such as "empty milk cartons" and "empty pen refills", nor will they resell these waste products. So, why do some people keep buying waste products on e-commerce platforms? The answer is that some parents or students buy these waste products and hand them over to the school to cope with the school's "environmental education" and "pen refill action".

On the surface, the school, which has continuously received a considerable amount of waste, has achieved a visual effect of environmental education; parents and students spend money to buy waste from e-commerce platforms, which improves the efficiency of waste collection; merchants use e-commerce platforms to take advantage of the school's environmental education initiatives or requirements to develop new sales markets and achieve profits. This seems to be an understandable win-win situation. However, the superficial "win-win" cannot cover up the absurdity inside and the damage it does to education itself.