It’s called garbage to waste materials or waste that gather in one place and are not strictly classified. Although they are no longer useful and do not provide any economic value, these wastes become more difficult to handle because they have a different composition and each type of them is assigned a different treatment. For the convenience of city dwellers, two main categories have been established: inorganic and organic.
On this occasion, inorganic garbage will be addressed . This is a colloquial concept and one that has been applied in general to instill a culture of waste sorting. The people of the cities can identify in public places the inorganic garbage deposits marked with large letters and with a color that identifies them from others. These are materials that do not decompose chemically, nor are they made up of substances that can rot.
Among the inorganic garbage are residues such as:
- Paperboard
- Wood
- News paper
- Office paper
- Plastics
- Home appliances
- Computers
- Mobile devices
- Rubber tires
- bikes
- Metallic structures
- Scrap
Inorganic garbage is produced by mankind since ancient times. The hominids , who were nomads and hunter-gatherers, created tools to hunt animals and utensils out of materials such as stone, bone, and wood. Later, when they became sedentary and the first civilizations began to settle, metal instruments emerged through metallurgy and ornamental objects through pottery.
There has always been waste from all of these processes. Now, there is an important distinction to be made : those who know chemistry recognize that the word “inorganic” refers exclusively to all mineral substances such as metals and salts. However, for the easy classification of garbage, cardboard, paper, rubber, fabrics and plastics are included as “inorganic”, when of course they are made up of organic compounds.
It is well known that inorganic waste can no longer be reused as it is and its repair (in the case of appliances) is not feasible. Therefore, the fact that they are just there accumulating becomes a matter of contamination. As a solution for this absurd accumulation is recycling , which is the treatment of materials that purifies and reconstitutes them to create them, but as a new product and in good condition.
It is important to recognize that inorganic garbage can be found in all three major states of matter . You can therefore have air, water and soil contamination. For example:
- The gases from the roasting of zinc ores, which are sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and sulfur trioxide (SO 3 ), pollute the air if they are released into the atmosphere. That is why they are driven to a sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) production plant, to take advantage of them and not throw them out like that or alter the composition of the air.
- Lubricating oils for motors, antifreezes, used cooking oils, must be contained in resistant plastic bags or in bottles from which they do not escape, because if they are poured into the water they will reduce the entry of oxygen into it, which ends up contaminating it. .
- Scrap metal, plastics, rubber, paper and cardboard, among others, are materials that accumulate and end up taking up too much space. That is why it is better to recycle them to create a new product from them. This purpose reminds how relevant it is to classify waste . Sorting them out makes it easier to collect them for treatment .
90 examples of inorganic garbage
- Dirty or used car oil
- Discarded petroleum oils.
- Aerosol sprays
- Wastewater from cities (although they may contain dissolved organic substances, they are counted among inorganic wastes)
- Industry wastewater
- Glasses
- Unusable Refrigerators
- Orthopedic appliances
- Crashed cars (for junkyard)
- Wrecked aircraft (for scrapyard)
- Junkyard ships (for scrapyard)
- Car batteries
- Baby bottles
- Broken or useless pens
- Plasticized paper bags
- Plastic bags
- PET bottles
- Glass bottles
- Broken inner tubes
- Cascajo (stones discarded from collapsed buildings)
- Unusable cassettes
- Catheters used
- Broken or unusable cell phones
- Matches
- Used pacifiers
- Computers
- Used condoms
- Cork cans
- Spoiled cosmetics
- Spilled or dirty diesel
- Lighters
- Plastic bottles
- PVC packaging
- PET soft drink containers.
- Styrofoam containers
- Candy wrappers.
- Broken fiberglass
- Burned out spotlights
- Spilled or dirty gasoline
- Used balloons
- Unusable microwave ovens
- Unusable electric ovens
- Insecticides (gaseous, liquid and solid like powders).
- Broken clay vases
- Used syringes
- Costume jewelery
- Toys
- Unusable asbestos sheets
- Useless pencils
- Steel cans (such as preserves and jams)
- Aluminum Cans
- Unusable blenders
- Used tires
- Hoses
- Heavy machinery
- Healing material already used such as gauze
- Mouse (mice), broken
- Burned or broken monitors
- Broken furniture
- Disposable diapers.
- Celofan paper
- Pieces of glass.
- Pieces of Rubber.
- Spilled or dirty oil
- Rechargeable batteries and non-rechargeable batteries
- Broken piñatas
- Disposable Styrofoam plates.
- Broken plates (glass, clay, talavera or plastic)
- Broken porcelain
- Fiberglass Products
- Unusable Refrigerators
- Synthetic fabric patchwork.
- Ripped nylon clothing.
- Broken clothes of artificial fabrics
- Useless Christmas series
- Solvents
- Petroleum-derived rubber and plastic shoe soles
- Screw caps (plastic)
- Broken computer keyboards
- Broken or unusable televisions
- Sanitary towels
- Broken plastic cups
- Styrofoam cups
- Broken glass glasses
- Paraffin candles.
- Used bandages
- Broken glasses
- Vinyl
- Broken vinyl shoes
- Artificial shoe soles
