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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or develop new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household 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 people and animals and are harmful to the environment when dealt with incorrectly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not recognize is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, harmful, or combustible chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not handled or managed appropriately.

Harmful home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as routine waste. For example, gas 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 chain. Burning hazardous waste causes the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, consequently affecting the health of individuals over a broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of hazardous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning of the central nervous systems and 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 Balcones Heights and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including signs and words, to indicate the danger to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out the label of products in your home and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before deciding to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the very best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are harmful to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to reduce the risk of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in separate locations from other hazardous products.

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

Always store products in their initial containers to prevent unintended use.

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

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should constantly be the last hope. Why? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the problem of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of big quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to manage the common small quantities produced at the home 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 take place when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is essential if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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