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It is obvious that the amount of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing land fills or build brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from household products. Harmful household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of humans and animals and are destructive to the environment when handled improperly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be very destructive to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical household products contain destructive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Harmful household waste should not be gotten rid 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials leads to the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, thus affecting the health of persons over a wider area.

A few of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might enter the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the performance 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 Darilek 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 suggest the risk to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly 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 buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage 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 start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to lower the risk of polluting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in different areas from other hazardous products.

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leaks and broken lids or bulging sides.

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

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 resort. Why? Since there are no safe ways of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the issue of contaminated materials disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large amounts of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to control the common small quantities produced 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 happen when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is necessary 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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