Everytime i shut my mac down and restart i always find recovered files in my trash and I'm afraid to empty it even thou they are still in my docs folder too

everytime i shut my mac down and restart i always find recovered files in my trash and I'm afraid to empty it even thou they are still in my docs folder too. Why does it do this? and will I delete files i have in my docs they look like same ones.

If the Trash contains folders of recovered files

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