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It is obvious 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 people and animals and are detrimental to the environment when managed poorly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not realize is that many of those common household products contain corrosive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed appropriately.

Harmful household waste should not be disposed of in the same way as regular 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 contaminated materials causes the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, thus 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 impacted plants and animals are consumed.

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

Check out the labels of products. In Kentwood Manor 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 suggest the hazard to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out the label of products in your household and make it a routine of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the very best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are harmful to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to reduce the threat of contaminating water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are stored in different locations from other dangerous products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to avoid unintended usage.

Ensure that these products are stored in a place where children and animals have no access to them.

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should constantly be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can avoid the dilemma 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 sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is unavoidable, then you should dispose of the waste in the way prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to control the common small quantities generated at the household 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 happen when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is necessary if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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