I. Hazardous waste
1, which will cause direct or potential harm to human health or natural environment, will be delivered to professional disposal units for harmless treatment after classified release. Harmful waste is not common in daily life. Remember the formula: "Mercury lamp medicine (mercury, lamp, medicine) pool paint (pool, paint)".
2. Mercury: thermometers and sphygmomanometers containing mercury.
3. Lamp: namely lamp tube, such as fluorescent lamp tube.
4. Drugs: that is, drugs and their inner packaging.
5. Pool: that is, batteries, except alkaline batteries and lithium batteries, most batteries are generally hazardous wastes, which will contain or produce toxic and harmful heavy metal elements and substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium.
6. Paint: volatile and harmful solvents such as paint, such as paint bucket and nail polish.
Second, recyclable items.
1. Recyclable materials refer to domestic garbage suitable for recycling. Although there are many kinds of recyclable materials, there is also a formula that is easy to remember: "paper plastic glass gold coat".
2. Paper: waste paper generally has a certain hardness, such as printing paper and envelopes, while paper towels, wet paper towels and paper tableware have no recycling value whether they are used or not.
3. Plastic: clean plastic products, such as washed beverage bottles and foamed plastics. Disposable plastic tableware or contaminated plastic bags with oil residue after meals have no recycling value.
4. Glass: a "pure" glass product, and the mirror composed of glass and coating is a composite product and cannot be recycled.
5. Gold: metal products.
6. Clothing: discarded cloth, but excluding towels, underwear, stockings, etc. There is no recycling value due to special purposes and other reasons.
Third, kitchen waste.
1, kitchen waste refers to domestic waste with organic matter as the main component, which has the characteristics of perishable fermentation and odor. After classified release, it will be handed over to a professional disposal unit for "composting", power generation, and extraction of available substances for production or harmless treatment. Most of the food is kitchen garbage.
2. As long as you remember that the following are not kitchen waste, you can accurately classify them: bamboo products, big bones, hard shells, coconut shells, durian shells, walnut shells, sugarcane skins, corn skins, palm leaves, hard nuts and so on.
Fourth, other rubbish.
1. Other garbage refers to other domestic garbage except harmful waste, recyclable and kitchen waste, most household hygiene products and composite garbage.
2. Products made of various materials and components that are difficult to disassemble, such as lighters, pens and umbrellas.
Benefits of garbage sorting:
1, reducing land erosion
Some substances in domestic garbage are not easy to degrade, which makes the land seriously eroded. Garbage sorting, removing recyclable and non-degradable substances, reducing the amount of garbage by more than 60%.
2. Improve economic value
Garbage classification can reduce the quantity and equipment of garbage disposal and reduce the disposal cost. Improve the recycling ratio of waste products and reduce the demand for raw materials.
3. Reduce environmental pollution
In China, sanitary landfill or even simple landfill is mostly used for garbage disposal, covering tens of thousands of acres; Moreover, insects and flies fly around, sewage overflows and stinks, which seriously pollutes the environment.
Waste plastics in soil will lead to crop yield reduction; Waste plastics are eaten by animals by mistake, resulting in accidents of animal death. So recycling can also reduce the harm.