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It is clear that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or construct brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

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

Incorrect management of home waste has the potential to be very detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not realize is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed correctly.

Hazardous home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as routine waste. For instance, 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, thus affecting the health of persons over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and may enter the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the performance 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 Bexar and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to show the risk to animals, human beings, 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 buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the very best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are hazardous to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

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

Check products regularly to ensure that there are no leakages and broken covers or bulging sides.

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

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 hope. Why? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the problem of contaminated materials disposal by either choosing naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities produced at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the obligation for the management of contaminated materials falls squarely on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only take place when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is vital if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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