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It is clear that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills or develop brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home 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 humans and animals and are damaging to the environment when handled incorrectly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be really damaging to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed properly.

Hazardous home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as routine waste. For example, 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 hazardous waste causes the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large locations, thus impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and might enter the food chain when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of different 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 Crown and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the threat to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your home and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle 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 humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to reduce the risk of infecting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in different locations from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid unintended use.

Ensure that these products are saved 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 methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the issue of hazardous waste disposal by either picking biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or buying smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is unavoidable, then you should dispose of the waste in the way recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of large amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to manage the common small quantities produced at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of hazardous waste falls squarely on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is essential if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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