Solid waste generated by people in their daily lives or in activities that provide services for their daily lives, as well as solid waste that is regarded as household garbage according to laws and administrative regulations, is called household garbage.
Domestic waste can be generally divided into four categories: recyclable waste, kitchen waste, hazardous waste and other waste.
1, recyclable waste, including paper, metal, plastic, glass, etc., through comprehensive treatment and recycling, can reduce pollution and save resources. For example, each recycled 1 ton of waste paper can make 850 kilograms of good paper, saving 300 kilograms of wood, than the same amount of production to reduce pollution by 74%.
Each recycled 1 ton of plastic beverage bottles can be obtained 0.7 tons of secondary raw materials; each recycled 1 ton of scrap steel can be refined 0.9 tons of steel, smelting than with ore to save 47% of the cost of 75% reduction in air pollution, 97% reduction in water pollution and solid waste.
2, kitchen waste, including leftovers, bones, vegetable roots and leaves and other food waste, made of biotechnology compost, each ton can produce 0.3 tons of organic fertilizer.
3. Hazardous waste includes waste batteries, waste fluorescent tubes, waste silver thermometers, expired medicines, etc., which require special and safe treatment.
4, other garbage including in addition to the above categories of garbage, brick ceramics, slag, bathroom waste paper and other difficult to recycle waste, to take sanitary landfill can effectively reduce the pollution of groundwater, surface water, soil and air.
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China's treatment methods:
China's technological countermeasures for municipal waste treatment are: sanitary landfills and high-temperature composting technologies are the mainstay, and incineration technology is advocated for cities that have the conditions to develop it, especially in economically developed coastal areas.
Cities began to carry out basic and applied research on garbage incineration treatment, developed including NF series of reverse combustion type, RF series of pyrolysis type, HL series of rotary small garbage combustion furnace and a number of special incinerators for hospital garbage, and constructed a number of small and medium-sized city simple incineration plant (station).
In 1985, Shenzhen, the introduction of Japan's Mitsubishi incineration of complete sets of technology and equipment, built China's first large-scale (300t / d) modern waste incineration and power generation integrated treatment plant, for China to carry out the work of localization of municipal waste incineration equipment to lay the foundation.
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