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It is obvious that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills or develop new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from household products. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of human beings and animals and are harmful to the environment when handled incorrectly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be very harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not recognize is that many of those common household products contain destructive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed appropriately.

Dangerous household waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For instance, gasoline can be buried in the ground, can impact rivers, and find its way into drinking water. The hydrocarbons in motor oils or pesticides have the potential to bio-accumulate in freshwater fishes and can find its way in the food chain. Burning hazardous waste results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large areas, thereby affecting the health of individuals over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might go into the food chain when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the functioning of the central nerve systems and immune systems of human and animals and some have been listed as known carcinogens.

How Can You Tell a Product is Hazardous?

Read the labels of products. In Amphion and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the danger to animals, human beings, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly check out the label of products in your household and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur that the best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are damaging to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to reduce the risk of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are stored in separate areas from other harmful products.

Check products often to ensure that there are no leakages and damaged covers or bulging sides.

Constantly store products in their original containers to avoid unintentional use.

Ensure that these products are stored in a place where children and animals have no access to them.

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should always be the last hope. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or buying smaller volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inevitable, then you should get rid of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the common small quantities produced at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of hazardous waste falls directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only happen when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is important if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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