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It is clear that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps 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 humans and animals and are damaging to the environment when handled incorrectly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be very damaging to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical household products contain corrosive, poisonous, or combustible chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not handled or managed appropriately.

Harmful household waste should not be gotten rid 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 hazardous waste causes the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, therefore impacting the health of individuals over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and might go into 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, development, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning of the central nerve systems and 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 Friendly Corner and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the danger to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always read the label of products in your household and make it a routine of reading the labels of a product before deciding to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are hazardous to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

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

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

Always store products in their initial containers to avoid unintentional 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 constantly be the last resort. Why? Because there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the problem of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the common small quantities produced at the household 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 occur when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease 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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