Want to enjoy the "New Year atmosphere" without the bad smell? Sort your garbage properly to make the New Year atmosphere more refreshing!

Snowflakes dance, plum blossoms bloom, and lanterns are hung in every household. The Lunar New Year is approaching. In this peaceful and harmonious festive atmosphere, relatives and friends gather together to share the warmth of reunion. In addition to laughter, there are also various household garbage, such as: fruit and vegetable peel garbage, cleaning garbage, gift box packaging, fireworks debris... These seemingly insignificant wastes actually hide a lot of knowledge. Do a good job of garbage sorting, we only want the flavor of the New Year, and refuse the odor!

The Chinese New Year is a time for everyone to eat and get rich. Friends and family gather frequently for meals, which easily produces a lot of food residues, such as discarded or inedible fruit and vegetable peels, egg shells, tea dregs, nut skins, cakes, etc. These garbage are called "kitchen waste", which is very easy to breed bacteria, rot, and produce odors. However, as long as they are properly handled, they can be turned into resources such as fertilizers and feed.

Stocking up on New Year's goods and buying gifts are essential parts of the New Year. These items are usually packaged in some exquisite or even excessive ways. Discarded packaging cartons, plastic bottles, glass products, metal packaging boxes, etc. are called "recyclables" and are resources that can be recycled again. At the same time, they can also be made into creative parent-child handicrafts such as small animal models, stickers, wind chimes, etc.

As soon as the fireworks are set off and the firecrackers are blasted, the New Year atmosphere comes into being. The fireworks and firecrackers after being set off mainly include scraps of paper and gunpowder residue, which are contaminated and cannot be recycled, and will not cause direct harm to the environment and human body, so they are called "other garbage". It should be noted that everyone must set off fireworks and firecrackers safely in accordance with relevant regulations.

There is another process during the Chinese New Year, that is, every household will go out to do a thorough cleaning of the house. The expired medicines, button batteries, paints, pesticides and disinfectants cleaned out are all called "hazardous waste". Discarding them at will will cause harm to the ecological environment and human health.

New Year, New Wish, Green First! If every family can properly sort garbage, those wastes that might have been a burden on the environment can become valuable resources and serve our lives again. Let us work together to gather a powerful force to protect the environment, so that this Spring Festival will not only have a strong flavor of the New Year, but also have fresh air and a clean environment!

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Author: Huang Hongyun, laboratory technician, Ni Li, head nurse, and Zou Jingbo, chief technician, Chongqing Yongchuan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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