How to separate garbage

What is the importance of separating garbage? What is the use of separating trash? These are some of the doubts that arise when we begin to raise this issue, or to explain it to the little ones. There are many Benefits of separating garbageamong them we highlight the following:

• Contamination of water bodies, such as rivers and oceans, as well as terrestrial areas, is prevented.
• The extraction of natural resources for the production of new products is reduced, in addition to that less energy is needed to produce new products from recycled waste.
• The sanitary landfills are avoided since garbage is reduced.
• It generates new jobs, since to manage waste there must be people who occupy them.
• Recycled material can create new different products.

In addition, if you want to know what are the consequences of not separating the garbage and not throwing it properly, we advise you to read this other post about garbage pollution: causes and consequences.

For recycle trash at home You can follow these tips:

• The important thing is to have different home recycling containerseither inside or outside the entrance zone, or small cubes to deposit each of the waste that we are going to separate, in this way, making a previous separation, then it will be easier to take them to their respective containers.
• Can label the containers that we have at home with the name of each waste or choose the containers of the same color as the containers that are on the street. It is a trick not to make mistakes and internalize that residue goes in each container.
• In addition, when there is any doubt about where to deposit a residue, we can always consult on the Internet different pages about recycling, or approach to ask in information points about recycling and waste management.

Next, different types of waste will be shown and each one will be explained in and how we should intervene in the residue, if necessary.

How to separate garbage to recycle containers and plastics? All those aluminum containers such as cans, aerosols and sprays, unicel trays (white food trays), plastic bottles and bottles and tetrabriks containers are deposited in the yellow contender. It is recommended that the containers go as clean as possible.

Here we talk about how to recycle plastic at home.

The glass It is a material that is 100% recycled And it is deposited in The green containerbut it is important that when we recycle it not to confuse it with glass glass. The glass glassvulgarly known as crystal, it is a type of better quality glass, but despite being a type of glass, it cannot be recycled next to the glass because it has a greater melting point. For example, glass glasses cannot be deposited in the green container and should be taken to a clean point. A trick to know what is glass, are all those waste that has had lid, caps or plug, although the tapas must be removed and discarded in their corresponding container, the tapas, usually of aluminum, would have to be thrown into the yellow container.

In these bonds you can learn more about the difference between glass and glass and how to recycle glass.

How should it Separate paper and cardboard garbage to recycle them? The paper and cardboard that separates from the rest of garbage in your home, must be deposited in the Blue containeralthough before throwing it we must take away any object that may have as staples or the spirals of the notebooks. Nor can dirty roles or cardboard of organic matter be deposited, or those of photographic type, fax or vegetable paper.

We encourage you to read why it is important to recycle paper and cardboard, how to recycle cardboard and how to recycle paper at home.

How to separate organic and inorganic garbage? On the one hand, we must separate inorganic waste as we have indicated and continue to see and, on the other hand, the Organic garbage. All food remains must be deposited in the brown color containerintended only for organic waste. This type of container is currently being implemented in more places.

All that garbage generated as diapers, compresses, papers used for hygiene, butts, gum, scales, among other non -recyclable waste, are deposited in The gray container or the one of the color indicated for the remains and waste, that is, the non -recyclable garbage.

There are also containers where we can deposit clothes to be recycledalthough the clothes we are going to discard is in good condition, another more supportive option could be chosen, which is that of donate clothes to those people who need it. You can separate it at home using bags that suits you to wear clothes to the indicated place, you will only have them at home a few hours or a few days, so this gesture to give more life to these materials will not occupy much space either.

The kit should be checked from time to time to prevent ingesting expired medicines, and all those that are expired or an expansion point must be taken to the nearest pharmacy that we have since they collect them there. In some countries, in the pharmacy you will see what is called Sigre point which is the container in which the medications that are no longer going to be used. At home you can keep them in a small bag and as soon as you have several take them to the pharmacy.

The oil we use for cooking or the one that comes in some cans of can Take it to an oil collection pointanother option is also to make soap with him. At home you can pouring the oil you want to lead to recycling In plastic or glass bottles To reuse them, then you will only have to take the bottles to the indicated point.

In some places there are specific points to carry this oil and in other places you must take to the Clean pointswhere they collect variety of waste that are not thrown into normal recycling containers.

Some of the objects and materials we use daily at home cannot be thrown into recycling containers, but must be taken to a Clean point or green point.

• The batteries and bulbs Once they are no longer useful, they must be taken to a clean point, or to the same place where we have bought them, since in many establishments they collect them.
• Electronic devices or furniture that we no longer use and want to throw must be taken to a clean point.
• Plastics used for paint cubes and toys plasticthey must also be taken to the green or clean point.

That is why we recommend you gathering in a bag everything you have at home and want to throw but that for its composition you should go to a green or clean point and not in normal garbage or a recycling container. Thus, when you have that full bag you can make a trip to this point to deposit this waste and you will see that you barely take place at home. However, if you usually have many materials to carry, we advise you to condition a bucket at home for this waste and thus have it more organized and take it more easily to that point.

Some cities and locations have a day of collection in waste on the clean point, for people who cannot move to it. Here we explain what is a clean point and what is it for.

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