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It is obvious that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments 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 home products. Harmful home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of humans and animals and are harmful to the environment when handled improperly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed properly.

Harmful home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For example, 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 causes the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, therefore affecting the health of persons over a wider area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and may enter the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of different 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?

Check out the labels of products. In Lake Medina Highlands 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 show the threat to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly 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 acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts agree that the best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start 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 harmful products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leaks to lower 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 harmful products.

Check products regularly to ensure that there are no leaks and broken lids or bulging sides.

Constantly store products in their original containers to prevent 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 hope. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the problem of contaminated materials disposal by either picking biodegradable 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 regulate the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities created at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of contaminated materials falls squarely on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is essential if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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