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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills 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 destructive to the environment when managed poorly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely destructive to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, harmful, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed effectively.

Dangerous home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine 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 chain. Burning hazardous waste leads to the release of harmful 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 broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning of the central nervous 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?

Read the labels of products. In Boldtville and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to suggest the danger 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 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 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 dangerous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to lower the threat of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are stored in different locations from other dangerous products.

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

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

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 resort. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can avoid the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting naturally degradable 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 manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities created 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 occur when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower 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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