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It is clear that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from home products. Dangerous 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 handled incorrectly

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

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gasoline 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 contaminated materials results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, thereby affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and might go into the food chain when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of numerous 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?

Read the labels of products. In Bigfoot and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to suggest the threat to animals, human beings, 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 making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the very 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 human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

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

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leakages and broken lids or bulging sides.

Constantly 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 always be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the problem of contaminated materials disposal by either selecting biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing 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 manage the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to manage the common small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of contaminated materials falls directly on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only happen when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is necessary if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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