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Managing Harmful Household Waste-- Your Roles And Responsibilities

It is clear that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or construct brand-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 impact plants, the health of people and animals and are harmful to the environment when handled incorrectly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not realize is that many of those common home products contain destructive, hazardous, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Harmful home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as regular waste. For instance, 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 hazardous waste causes the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big areas, therefore affecting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may go into the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the functioning of the central nervous systems and immune systems of human and animals and some have been listed as known carcinogens.

How Can You Tell a Product is Hazardous?

Check out the labels of products. In Dominion 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?

Always 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 buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the very 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 people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

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

Check products often to ensure that there are no leakages and broken lids or bulging sides.

Always store products in their initial containers to prevent unintentional usage.

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 always be the last resort. Why? Since there are no safe ways of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing naturally degradable 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 inescapable, then you should dispose of the waste in the way recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to regulate the normal 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 take place when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is essential 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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