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It is clear that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or develop 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 impact plants, the health of humans and animals and are destructive to the environment when managed improperly

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

Harmful household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gasoline 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 leads to the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, therefore impacting the health of individuals over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might get in the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance 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 Lakehills 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 indicate 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 household and make it a practice of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally 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 which contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to lower the threat of infecting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in separate locations from other hazardous products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid 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 constantly be the last hope. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can avoid the dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either choosing naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is unavoidable, then you should get rid of the waste in the manner recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities produced at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of contaminated materials falls directly on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is necessary if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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