1. Recyclable materials mainly include waste paper, plastic, glass, metal and cloth.
2. Other garbage (called dry garbage in Shanghai) includes bricks and tiles, muck, toilet waste paper, paper towels and other wastes that are difficult to recycle, dust, food bags (boxes) and so on.
3. Kitchen waste (called wet waste in Shanghai) includes food waste such as leftovers, bones, roots, leaves and peels.
4. Hazardous wastes include heavy metals, toxic substances harmful to human health or wastes that cause actual or potential harm to the environment. Including batteries, fluorescent tubes, light bulbs, mercury thermometers, paint buckets, some household appliances, expired drugs, expired cosmetics and so on.
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The significance of garbage classification:
1, garbage classification is not a trivial matter, it is not only a basic livelihood issue, but also the meaning of ecological civilization construction. In recent years, with the development of economy and society and the substantial improvement of material consumption level, the amount of garbage produced in China has increased rapidly, which not only causes waste of resources, but also makes environmental hidden dangers increasingly prominent, which has become a restrictive factor for the sustained and healthy development of economy and society and a prominent problem strongly reflected by the people.
Following the principles of reduction, recycling and innocuity, implementing garbage sorting treatment and guiding people to form a green development mode and lifestyle can effectively improve the urban and rural environment, promote the recycling of resources, and be conducive to the improvement of national quality and the progress of social civilization.
2. Effectively reduce the pollution of groundwater, surface water, soil and air.
3. Other substances in garbage can also be converted into resources, such as food, vegetation, fabrics, etc., which can be composted to produce organic fertilizer; Garbage incineration can generate electricity, heat or cool; Bricks and lime soil can be processed into building materials and so on. All kinds of solid wastes are garbage when mixed together, and resources when separated.
4. Garbage sorting can effectively save primary resources, improve environmental quality, drive green development and lead green life.
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