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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing land fills or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from home products. Harmful home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of humans and animals and are harmful to the environment when managed incorrectly

Inappropriate management of home 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 typical home products contain destructive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed correctly.

Harmful home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For example, fuel can be buried in the ground, can affect 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, therefore affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might enter the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the performance of the central nerve systems and body immune systems of human and animals and some have been listed as known carcinogens.

How Can You Tell a Product is Hazardous?

Check out the labels of products. In Anchorage and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to show the risk to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your home and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

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

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to minimize the danger of polluting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional usage.

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

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should always be the last resort. Why? Since there are no safe methods of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the predicament of contaminated materials disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to control the common small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of contaminated materials falls squarely on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is important if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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