The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning machinery, and discloses a garbage cleaning and sorting vehicle and a garbage cleaning and classifying method. The garbage cleaning and classifying vehicle comprises a movable base, an industrial personal computer, a laser radar, a recognition device, a grabbing mechanism and a garbage temporary storage box, wherein the industrial personal computer, the laser radar, the recognition device, the grabbing mechanism and the garbage temporary storage box are arranged on the movable base, the laser radar, the recognition device and the grabbing mechanism are electrically connected with the industrial control machine, the grabbing mechanism is arranged on the front side of the movable base, the garbage temporary storage box is positioned below the grabbing mechanism, the laser radar is configured to carry out path planning and navigation, the recognition device is configured to search garbage and identify the type of the garbage, and the industrial personal computer is configured to drive the movable base to move and drive the grabbing mechanism to grab the garbage and classify the garbage in corresponding garbage cans. The garbagecleaning and classifying vehicle can effectively carry out comprehensive patrolling on a working area, automatically picks up the garbage in the working area and classifies and recovers the garbage, and thus avoids the labor consumption.