Where can I find a trash can in Shanghai?

Garbage cans are everywhere in Shanghai.

In Shanghai, the setting of trash cans is very popular, and there are trash cans at almost every intersection, park and business district. Usually the color of the trash can is green or blue, and it is marked with the words garbage or dry garbage. The public can classify and put garbage according to the color and logo of the trash can.

In addition to intersections and parks, garbage bins in Shanghai are also distributed in public places such as subway stations, bus stations, shopping malls and supermarkets. The trash cans in these places are usually larger, which can hold more garbage, which is convenient for the public to put in at any time.

Garbage cans in Shanghai are also set up in some alleys, communities and residential areas. These trash cans are usually green and marked with the words garbage or dry garbage. Citizens can put domestic garbage into these trash cans for cleaning workers to collect.

Garbage classification in Shanghai

Shanghai garbage can be divided into four categories: wet garbage, dry garbage, recyclable garbage and harmful waste.

2. Wet garbage can also be called kitchen waste, including food residues, vegetable roots and leaves, animal hoof horns, melon skin and fruit slices, eggshells, fish scales, hair, plant branches and so on.

3. Recyclable garbage includes waste paper, waste plastics, waste glass products, waste metals, waste fabrics, etc. These recyclable wastes should be put in recyclable garbage bins.

4. Hazardous waste is also called hazardous waste. Littering will cause environmental pollution, including waste batteries, waste fluorescent tubes, waste drugs, waste photos, waste pigment containers and so on. Littering these rubbish will cause serious environmental pollution.

5. Except for the above three kinds of garbage, they are all dry garbage.