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It is no secret that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing land fills or construct new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home 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 people and animals and are detrimental to the environment when handled improperly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not recognize is that many of those common household products contain corrosive, poisonous, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Harmful household waste should not be dealt with 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 cycle. Burning hazardous waste causes the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, therefore impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people 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 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 Espey 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 danger to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your household and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before deciding to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur 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 which contain chemicals that are damaging to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to decrease the risk of contaminating water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in separate areas from other harmful products.

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leakages and broken covers or bulging sides.

Constantly 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 option. Why? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or buying smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to manage the normal small quantities generated at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the duty 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 play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is essential 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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