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It is clear 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 land fills or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from household products. Hazardous 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 dealt with incorrectly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be very damaging to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those typical household products contain corrosive, toxic, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed properly.

Hazardous household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as regular waste. For instance, 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials causes the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, therefore impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and may get in the food cycle 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, development, hinder the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning 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?

Read the labels of products. In Cibolo and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to indicate 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 household and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts agree that the best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are hazardous to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly 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 reduce the threat of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are stored in different locations from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid unintentional 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 constantly be the last option. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either selecting eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or buying smaller volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is unavoidable, then you should dispose 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 typical small quantities generated at the household 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 occur when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is vital if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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