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Handling Dangerous Household Waste-- Your Roles And Responsibilities

It is obvious that the amount of household waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government 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. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of human beings and animals and are harmful to the environment when dealt with poorly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be really harmful to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those typical household products contain corrosive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Dangerous household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as regular waste. For example, gasoline can be buried in the ground, can impact 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 leads to the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, consequently impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may enter the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance of the central nerve 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 Cross Mountain 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 show 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 household and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are damaging to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to minimize the threat of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other dangerous products.

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leakages and broken lids 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 constantly be the last hope. Why? Since there are no safe ways of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the predicament 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, nevertheless, disposal is unavoidable, then you should get rid of the waste in the way recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities produced at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the obligation for the management of contaminated materials falls directly on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is essential 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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