Clam shells are dry garbage. Dry garbage includes large bones, hard shells, hard fruit shells (coconut shells, durian shells, walnut shells, corn coats, sugarcane hulls), and hard fruits (durian kernels, pineapple honey kernels), and some of the harder shells and larger bones belong to dry garbage, so clam shells belong to dry garbage.

Shanghai's garbage classification divides household waste into four categories: recyclables, hazardous waste, wet waste and dry waste.

Recyclables are garbage that can be recycled. Paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, metal, plastic packaging, and other materials such as newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and other clean paper that can be reused can be recycled.

Hazardous waste refers to waste batteries, lamps, medicines, paints and their containers that are directly or potentially harmful to human health or the natural environment.

Commonly including waste batteries, waste fluorescent tubes, waste light bulbs, waste silver thermometers, waste paint buckets, expired medicines and so on. Hazardous and toxic wastes need special and correct methods for safe disposal.

Wet garbage, also known as food waste and organic waste, or perishable garbage, refers to perishable biomass household waste such as food waste, leftovers, expired food, melon peels and kernels, flowers and greenery, and traditional Chinese medicine dregs.

Dry garbage, or other garbage, refers to household waste other than recyclables, hazardous waste, and food waste (wet garbage).

Clam shells are salty, cold in nature, can enter the lung and kidney meridian and liver meridian, can clear heat, but also phlegm and dampness, but also soften the hard, usually can cure stomach pain, but also phlegm and coughing, edema, and urination and spermatorrhea and a variety of other common diseases, and in addition to the shells of the clams can be treated with carbuncle and burn, the therapeutic effects of the particularly good.

Clam shells can diuretic laxative, usually people can use clam shells powder, take half a couple of ephedra and half a couple of ephedra and Qingdai together in the pot of porridge to drink, once a day can be. In addition to this clam shells can also cure stomach pain, treatment can be clam shells and corrugated together with the powder, with ginger soup to serve.

The treatment can put the clam shell on the charcoal fire burning Pei, Pei good after the research into fine powder, and then each take one or two divided into three times to take, even after three to five days can make the symptoms significantly better.

Clam shells can treat human burns, usually the treatment of clam shells into a fine powder, add sesame oil mixing directly after the compress, can reduce swelling and pain, but also to accelerate the healing of the wound.