After the Regulations on the Management of Beijing Municipal Solid Waste came into force, garbage sorting has become an integral part of the life of Beijing residents. The Foreign Affairs Office of Changping District took the initiative to contact foreigners living or working in the district to inform them of relevant regulations and help communities with garbage sorting. As the Chinese New Year is coming, they have made a bilingual short video in Chinese and English about garbage classification in cooperation with James, Louis and some other foreigners. You can find it below:
Are you familiar with the scenes in the video? Today, let's follow our foreign friends to learn more about garbage classification.
1. What Is Recyclable Waste？
James from England received quite a lot of packages after the Double 11 Shopping Festival. But the classification of all kinds of packaging materials is troublesome.
Items like the paper boxes, glass bottles, metal bottles, toys, plugs, tires and so on are recyclables. Recyclables go in the blue bins!
2. What Is Kitchen Waste？
Three meals a day are necessary in China. But how to deal with food scraps such as peels, bones and corn cobs?
Fish bones, fruit and vegetable peels, cooking oil, shrimp and other items that can rot are kitchen waste. But be sure to note that there are other items that are food-related but difficult to degrade, and these belong to other waste!
3. What Is Hazardous Waste or Other Waste?
How much hazardous waste or other waste can a family's general cleaning products produce?
Hazardous waste contains chemicals and could cause direct or potential harm to our environment.
Other waste generally refers to less harmful waste without reuse value, such as construction wastes.
Friends, have you got it? When asked, "What kind of garbage," don't get it wrong.
