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It is no secret that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand 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 household products. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of human beings and animals and are damaging to the environment when managed incorrectly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be extremely damaging to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common household products contain corrosive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Dangerous household waste should not be dealt with 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 poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, consequently affecting the health of persons over a wider area.

A few 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 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 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 Biry and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, including signs and words, to suggest the danger to animals, human beings, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your household and make it a habit of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts agree 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 which contain chemicals that are harmful 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 minimize the risk of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are stored in separate locations from other harmful products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid unintended 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 option. Why? Because there are no safe methods of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can avoid the dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either picking naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is inevitable, then you should dispose of the waste in the manner recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the normal small quantities produced at the household 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 contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is essential 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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