In the new rules for trash classification in Beijing, in order to facilitate the public's knowledge of trash classification and avoid conceptual confusion, the regulations further simplify the standards for trash classification by integrating two categories of food waste and kitchen waste into a single category of food waste, and making it clear that domestic waste is divided into four basic categories of food waste, recyclables, hazardous waste, and other garbage, with definitions given in the bylaws. Definition.

1, food waste:

(1) refers to the family generated in the vegetable gangs and leaves, melon and fruit peels and cores, leftovers, discarded food and other perishable garbage;

(2) engaged in food and beverage business activities of enterprises and institutions, troops, schools, enterprises and institutions, and other units of the collective canteens in the food processing, catering services, food supply and other activities of food processing waste materials and discarded edible oil and grease;

(3) food waste and waste materials, and waste materials, and waste materials. food residues, food processing waste and waste edible oil and grease;

(3) as well as farmers' markets, wholesale markets of agricultural products, vegetables and fruits waste, rotting meat, meat and bones, aquatic products, animal and poultry offal, and so on. Among them, waste edible fats and oils refer to the animal and plant fats and oil-water mixtures that are no longer edible.

2, recyclables:

It refers to the activities generated in daily life or providing services for daily life, has lost all or part of its original value of use, recycling after reprocessing can become raw materials for production or after finishing can be reused items, mainly including waste paper, plastic, glass, metal, electronic waste, fabrics and so on.

3, hazardous waste:

The toxic and harmful substances in domestic waste, mainly including waste batteries (cadmium-nickel batteries, mercuric oxide batteries, lead storage batteries, etc.), waste fluorescent tubes (fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps, etc.), waste thermometers, waste sphygmomanometers, waste products and their packaging, waste paints, solvents, and their packaging, waste insecticides, disinfectants, and their packaging, waste film and waste photo paper. .

4. Other garbage:

It refers to domestic garbage other than food waste, recyclables and hazardous waste, as well as domestic garbage whose categories are difficult to recognize.