What are the garbage classifications in Hangzhou?

There are four types of garbage in Hangzhou: recyclable garbage, harmful waste, perishable garbage and other garbage.

According to the new Regulations, the domestic garbage in Hangzhou will be divided into four categories: recyclable garbage, harmful waste garbage, perishable garbage and other garbage, corresponding to blue, red, green and gray garbage bins respectively.

It should be noted that at present, some garbage bins used to collect other garbage in Hangzhou are yellow barrels. According to the planning of Hangzhou, by the end of 2020, all the gray barrels will replace the yellow ones.

Detailed introduction:

The main types of hazardous waste are: waste batteries (cadmium nickel batteries, mercury oxide batteries, lead batteries, etc. ), waste fluorescent tubes (fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps, etc. ), waste thermometers, waste sphygmomanometers, waste drugs and their packaging, waste paints, solvents and their packaging, waste pesticides, disinfectants and their packaging, waste films, waste photographic paper, etc.

The main varieties of perishable garbage are: kitchen garbage produced by canteens, hotels and restaurants in relevant units, vegetable and melon garbage, carrion, broken bones, eggshells and internal organs of livestock and poultry products produced by farmers' markets and agricultural products wholesale markets.

The main varieties of recyclables are: waste paper, waste plastics, waste metal, waste packaging materials, waste textiles, waste electrical and electronic products, waste glass, waste paper aluminum-plastic composite packaging and so on.

All domestic wastes except the above three categories are other wastes.