With the official implementation of the "Shanghai Municipal Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste" on July 1st, garbage classification has received widespread attention from people. So, what is the significance of garbage classification? What are the benefits?

1、 What is the meaning of garbage classification?

1. Reduce environmental pollution

At present, garbage treatment in China generally adopts sanitary landfill or even simple landfill methods, which occupies a lot of land and causes serious pollution to the environment. So garbage classification can recycle and reuse useful waste, and reduce landfill, thus reducing the harm to the environment.

2. Enhancing public awareness of conservation

Garbage classification enables people to learn how to save and utilize resources, and develop a good lifestyle habit to improve personal quality. If people can develop good habits of garbage sorting, they will pay more attention to environmental protection issues, in order to truly understand the value of resources and develop the habit of saving resources.

3. Saving land resources

Some substances in household waste are not easily degraded and cause serious erosion of the land. After sorting the garbage, a portion can be recycled for reuse, which will reduce the amount of garbage and save more land resources

2、 The Importance of Garbage Classification

China is a populous country and also a major waste producing country. As early as 2004, it surpassed the United States to become the world's largest waste producing country. According to online data, China's annual waste production is as high as 400 million tons, with an annual growth rate of about 8%!

Perhaps, some people may say, it's just littering around, throwing it away without sorting it out, and it hasn't had any impact on my life. However, environmental pollution can indeed lead to health problems, and the garbage we discard every day may return to our lives in different ways, such as drinking water, consuming toxic meat and milk from livestock, and inhaling toxic gases released by garbage into our lungs

So, garbage classification is an important measure to save energy and protect the environment. For the sake of our living environment, everyone should participate. Not only should we adults do well, but we should also have a subtle impact on our children, forming good habits of not littering and sorting and recycling garbage, and jointly protecting our beautiful home.