How to empty single items from trash

I'm new to mac and how to do general things.  I'm having difficulty deleting individual items from my trash.  In addition, I'm having a hard time finding my trash

Trash Bin is on your Dock (last icon on the lower-right).  You cannot delete individual files from the Trash Bin like you can on a Windows machine.  The trash is treated differently on a Mac and the idea is, you shouldn't be filing stuff in there that you don't want deleted entirely.  Start treating it like your trash bin in your house.  You don't go in there and pick and choose what needs to go out to the street and you shouldn't be doing the same with your trash on a Mac either.
A work around for this would be to take out what you don't want deleted permanently when you empty and put it somewhere on your desktop, then empty the trash of whatever is left in it that you wanted deleted and then move the other items back to the trash, but ultimately, this is too convoluted.  Just make it a habit of treating it like I said above.

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