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It is clear that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing land fills or develop new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from home products. Harmful home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of people and animals and are destructive to the environment when dealt with poorly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be really destructive to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, poisonous, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Harmful home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as routine 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 results in the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large locations, therefore affecting the health of individuals over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might enter the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of various 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 Dobrowolski and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to indicate the danger to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly check out the label of products in your home and make it a practice of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally 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 which contain chemicals that are harmful to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly 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 leaks to lower the risk of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other dangerous products.

Check products regularly to ensure that there are no leaks and damaged lids or bulging sides.

Constantly store products in their initial containers to prevent 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 option. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can prevent the dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either picking 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 get rid of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of large amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility 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 contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is vital if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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