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It is no secret that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps 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. Dangerous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of humans and animals and are harmful to the environment when managed improperly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not recognize is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, hazardous, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed effectively.

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as regular waste. For example, fuel 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 contaminated materials leads to the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, therefore affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and might enter the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of numerous 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?

Check out the labels of products. In English Crossing 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 risk to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always read the label of products in your home and make it a routine of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase 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 which contain chemicals that are harmful 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 kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to reduce the risk of infecting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in different areas from other dangerous products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent 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 always be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can prevent the problem of contaminated materials disposal by either choosing biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inevitable, then you should get rid of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the common small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility 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 reduce waste. This is vital if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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