Waste sorting is a problem around Kinds of waste include: ⒈ Recyclable waste: paper, metal, glass and other things that can be reused. ⒉ Harmful waste: things like medicine, batteries. ⒊ Wet waste: things that you don't want but pigs eat, also called household waste. ⒋ Dry waste: things that aren't wet, recyclable or harmful waste. A few ways to help you sort waste ⒈ Plastic bags can't be recycled. Plastic bags may cause a lot of problems in the recycling process. If you have plastic bags, you should put them in the dry waste bin. ⒉ Plastic bottles with caps on can be recycled. With the new recycling equipment, this kind of bottles will go into the recyclable waste bin. However, the bottles filled with air usually take up more transport space. Therefore, you had better squeeze(挤压) the air out of the bottles before you recycle them. ⒊ Pizza boxes can't be recycled. Although cardboard itself is recyclable, pizza boxes are not. Why? It is due to the oil. The oil on the boxes makes the paper non-recyclable. |