The invention provides a household waste sorting and drying system. The waste heating value can be increased, the moisture content of household waste is decreased, most of recycled items such as metaland plastic can be effectively recycled, the waste resource degree is high, and the waste is changed into fuel with the high heating value. A waste front sorting system comprises a raw waste grab bucket crane, a bag break crusher, a first front sorting conveyor, a second front sorting conveyor, a third front sorting conveyor, a fourth front sorting conveyor, a fifth front sorting conveyor, a sixth front sorting conveyor, a seventh front sorting conveyor, a first magnetic separator, a front sorting drum screen, a first bounce screen, a second bounce screen, a first photometric sorter, a secondphotometric sorter, a third photometric sorter, a fourth photometric sorter, other plastic belt bins, an HDPE plastic belt bin, an LDPE plastic belt bin and a front sorting packing machine; a waste drying system comprises a drying bin grab bucket crane, a drying bin, a first drying conveyor and a drying front temporary-storing bin; and a waste rear sorting system comprises a first rear sorting conveyor, a second rear sorting conveyor, a third rear sorting conveyor, a fourth rear sorting conveyor, a fifth rear sorting conveyor, a sixth rear sorting conveyor, a seventh rear sorting conveyor, aneighth rear sorting conveyor, a first belt bin, a second belt bin, a rear sorting drum screen, a flip-flow screen, a glass sorter, a disc homogenizer, a second magnetic separator, a winnowing machine, an eddy current sorter, a rear sorting packing machine and an outer transportation conveyor.