On a hot summer day, it¡¯s perfect to have some crayfish for midnight snack. However, eating crayfish is a pleasure, but cleaning up the battlefield is a pain!

How should the garbage generated after eating crayfish be classified? Recently, a "crayfish afterlife classification chart" of unknown origin has confused many netizens: the whole crayfish is wet garbage, and the crayfish head without yellow is dry garbage? Lobster meat and lobster yellow are wet garbage, and lobster shells are dry garbage?

¡÷The "crayfish afterlife classification chart" of unknown origin is wrong. Picture from the Internet

In response to this "crayfish afterlife classification chart" that has been flooding the screen, the Shanghai Waste Management Office responded through its WeChat public account "Where does the garbage go": Throwing a crayfish is not that complicated, because crayfish, lobster shells, lobster heads, lobster yellow, and lobster meat are all wet garbage.

¡÷Picture from the Internet

The Shanghai Waste Management Office further explained that wet garbage refers to perishable garbage. In the "Guidelines for the Classification and Disposal of Domestic Waste in Shanghai" issued in April 2019, it is also clearly listed that "aquatic products and processed foods (fish, fish scales, shrimp, shrimp shells, squid)" are all classified as wet garbage.

¡÷Crayfish is very easy to throw away. "Where does the garbage go" WeChat public account picture

How to deal with milk tea after drinking it? Throw it directly into dry garbage!

In addition to crayfish, milk tea was also pulled out for "public display".

For example, to teach you how to deal with a cup of unfinished milk tea, you need to go in four steps: the first step is to pour the remaining milk tea into the drain; the second step is to throw the pearls, fruit pulp and other residues into the wet garbage; the third step is to throw the cup and straw into the dry garbage; the fourth step varies depending on the tea. If it is a cup with a lid, the plastic lid can be classified as recyclable garbage.

¡÷ Steps to deal with an unfinished cup of milk tea on the Internet. "Where does the garbage go?" WeChat public account picture

Drinking milk tea and throwing away a milk tea cup is so troublesome?

"In fact, if we think about it from another angle, you make a cup of tea, what should you do if you don't finish it? Pour the contents of the teacup into the sink, wash the cup and put it away. Will you let the tea residue clog your home sewer?" The Shanghai Waste Management Office said that the same is true for an unfinished cup of milk tea, but the remaining parts (cups, straws, lids) after pouring out the contents can be directly thrown into the dry garbage bin.

Plastic milk tea cups and lids, such as thin plastics, have low recycling value, and they must be cleaned before being thrown in to avoid contaminating other recyclables, so it is recommended to throw them directly into the dry garbage bin.

Why aren't cups, straws, and lids thrown into the recyclables bin? This is because plastic milk tea cups, lids and other thin plastics have low recycling value, and they need to be cleaned before being put in. In order to avoid contaminating other recyclables, it is recommended to throw them directly into the dry garbage bin.

Distinguish between dry and wet garbage? These types of garbage are a bit special

How to distinguish between dry and wet garbage? Simply put, dry garbage refers to incinerable garbage, and wet garbage refers to compostable garbage. Another netizen asked, since aquatic products are all wet garbage, why are clam shells dry garbage? Since food waste is all wet garbage, why are rice dumpling leaves and corn skins dry garbage? They are all pig bones, why are large bones considered dry garbage?

It turns out that this is because the first step of the final disposal of wet garbage is crushing. Considering that hard shellfish and large bones are not easy to be crushed and will damage the crushing blades, and the long fiber structure of rice dumpling leaves is easy to entangle mechanical components, which will affect the final disposal, so they are classified as dry garbage.

¡°Of course, you don¡¯t have to worry too much. In the early stages of garbage classification, as long as you can roughly determine whether it is wet garbage or dry garbage, we can afford it even if there are individual mistakes.¡± The Shanghai Waste Management Office said that it is a good thing to pay attention to garbage classification, but there is no need to demonize it too much.

The Shanghai Municipal Greening and Urban Appearance Administration also issued a detailed garbage classification guide on June 12, drawing the ¡°key points¡± of garbage classification for everyone.

In addition, the official also provided a simple method for garbage classification:

Remember the material of recyclables-glass, gold, plastic, paper, and clothes;

Remember the formula for hazardous waste-medicine (must be) oil (have) electric lights;

Remember the principle of wet garbage-easy to rot, easy to crush;

The rest is dry garbage!

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