What you need to pay attention to for garbage collection in Xi'an:
Domestic garbage is divided into 4 categories: recyclables, food waste, hazardous waste and other garbage.
Of these, recyclables are items suitable for recycling and resource utilization, including paper, plastic, metal, glass, wood and fabric.
Food waste refers to solid food, egg shells, melon and fruit peels and cores, tea dregs, etc. discarded at home, as well as organic perishable waste such as discarded leaves, fruits, fishes and shrimps generated from fruit and vegetable and aquatic markets.
Hazardous garbage refers to household garbage that causes direct or potential harm to human health or the natural environment, including waste rechargeable batteries, waste button batteries, waste lamps, discarded medicines, waste pesticides (containers), waste paints (containers), waste household chemicals, waste water and silver products.
Other garbage refers to domestic garbage other than the first 3 items, including discarded sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, napkins, cigarette butts, scavenging debris, fallen leaves, flowers and plants.
Expanded Information
According to Article 19 of the Xi'an Municipal Measures for the Management of Classification of Domestic Waste, units and individuals shall accurately put out domestic waste in accordance with the time, place and manner announced by the manager, and classify and put out the domestic waste into the collection containers with the corresponding markings or the designated collection points.
Put the domestic garbage shall comply with the following provisions:
(a) recyclables should be put into the domestic garbage collection containers with recyclables labeling or booking of renewable resources recycling business enterprises for recycling.
(ii) Food waste should be drained and put out.
(c) lamps, mercury products and other fragile or hazardous waste containing liquids should be placed after taking measures to prevent breakage or leakage.
(d) Waste of large, integral or large furniture that needs to be disassembled and reprocessed should be booked with a recycling business or put into a designated recycling point.
(E) waste electrical and electronic products should be in accordance with the product specification or product sellers, maintenance organizations, after-sales service agencies in the business premises marked with recycling tips for recycling, or put to the designated recycling points.
Article 20 prohibits industrial solid waste, construction waste, medical waste, animal carcasses mixed into domestic garbage.
People's Daily News - Xi'an domestic garbage will be divided into four major categories