also: もえないごみ
nonburnable garbage; nonflammables
Refers to waste that cannot be incinerated, such as metal, glass, ceramics, and certain plastics. Used in the context of garbage sorting and disposal.
Please put out nonburnable garbage on Mondays.
Broken plates are nonburnable garbage.
資源ゴミ refers to recyclable waste such as cans and bottles that gets reused, whereas 燃えないゴミ is nonburnable waste that is simply disposed of, not recycled.
Standard mixed kanji-katakana spelling commonly seen on waste disposal signs and in municipal guidelines.
Hiragana variant for ごみ; equally common in everyday writing.
Compound of 燃えない (negative potential form of 燃える 'to burn') and ゴミ ('garbage'). A straightforward modern term for waste sorting.