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It is clear that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or build brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from home products. Hazardous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of humans and animals and are damaging to the environment when managed incorrectly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be really damaging to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not realize is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, toxic, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Hazardous home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For instance, 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 chain. Burning hazardous waste results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, therefore affecting the health of individuals over a larger area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous 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?

Check out the labels of products. In La Coste 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 suggest the hazard to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly check out the label of products in your home and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage 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 start by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are hazardous to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly 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 minimize the danger of polluting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in different areas from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional 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? Since there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the predicament of hazardous waste disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to control the normal small quantities produced at the home 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 take place when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is important 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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