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Colour Coding For Waste Segregation in India

Green bins are for biodegradable waste like food scraps, garden waste, and other organic materials. Blue bins are for dry and recyclable items like plastic, paper, cardboard, and metals. Black bins are for hazardous domestic waste such as diapers, sanitary products, batteries, lightbulbs, and expired medications.

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Colour Coding For Waste Segregation in India

Green bins are for biodegradable waste like food scraps, garden waste, and other organic materials. Blue bins are for dry and recyclable items like plastic, paper, cardboard, and metals. Black bins are for hazardous domestic waste such as diapers, sanitary products, batteries, lightbulbs, and expired medications.

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Colour coding for waste segregation in India

1. Green Bin
The green coloured bin is used to dump biodegradable waste. This bin could be used to
dispose Off wet/organic material including cooked food/leftover food, vegetable/fruit peels,
egg shell, rotten eggs, chicken/fish bones, tea bags/coffee grinds, coconut shells and garden
waste including fallen leaves/twigs or the puja flowers/garlands will all go into the green bin.

2. Blue bin
The blue coloured bin is used for segregating dry or recyclable left over. This category
includes waste like plastic covers, bottles, boxes, cups, toffee wrappers, soap or chocolate
wrapper and paper waste including magazines, newspapers, tetra packs, cardboard cartons,
pizza boxes or paper cups/plates will have to be thrown into the white bin. Metallic items like
tins/cans foil paper and containers and even the dry waste including cosmetics, hair,
rubber/thermocol (polystyrene), and old mops/dusters/sponges.

3. Black bin
Black bin, make up for the third category, which is used for domestic hazardous waste like
sanitary napkins, diapers, blades, bandages, CFL, tube light, printer cartridges, broken
thermometer, batteries, button cells, expired medicine etc.

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