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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government 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 home products. Hazardous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of people and animals and are detrimental to the environment when dealt with improperly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not realize is that many of those common home products contain destructive, poisonous, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Hazardous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as regular 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 chain. Burning contaminated materials results in the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big areas, consequently impacting the health of individuals over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may get in the food chain when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of numerous 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?

Read the labels of products. In Bracken and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to indicate the hazard 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 practice of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally 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 damaging to people, 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 harmed, do not have any leaks to minimize the risk of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in separate areas from other harmful products.

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

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

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 option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the issue 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 unavoidable, 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 big amounts of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to control the normal small quantities produced 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 take place when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is important 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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