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It is obvious that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or construct new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from household products. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of people and animals and are harmful to the environment when handled poorly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those typical household products contain destructive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Dangerous household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For example, 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 chain. Burning contaminated materials leads to the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, thus affecting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and may go into the food chain when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of various 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 Kyote and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to indicate the risk to animals, people, 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 practice of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

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 harmful to people, 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 leaks to reduce the risk of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in separate areas from other hazardous products.

Check products often to ensure that there are no leaks and broken covers or bulging sides.

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

Ensure that these products are kept 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 methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the predicament of contaminated materials disposal by either selecting naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or buying smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the normal 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 take place when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is essential if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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