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It is obvious that the amount of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home 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 human beings and animals and are harmful to the environment when dealt with poorly

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

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 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 chain. Burning contaminated materials results in the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big areas, thus affecting the health of individuals over a wider area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and may go into the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of numerous 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?

Read the labels of products. In Graytown and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to show the risk to animals, human beings, 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 practice of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur 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 damaging to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to minimize the danger of contaminating water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in different areas from other hazardous products.

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

Always store products in their original 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 hope. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can prevent the predicament of contaminated materials disposal by either picking naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or buying smaller volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is inevitable, then you should dispose of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to manage the common 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 take place when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is essential if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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