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Handling Dangerous Home Waste-- Your Roles And Responsibilities

It is obvious that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying 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 home products. Dangerous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of people and animals and are detrimental to the environment when dealt with poorly

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

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as routine waste. For example, fuel 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 toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big areas, therefore impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance 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 Leon Springs and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including signs and words, to indicate the risk to animals, people, 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 habit of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts agree that the very 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 hazardous to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to reduce the danger of contaminating water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in separate areas from other harmful products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to prevent 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 resort. Why? Since there are no safe ways of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is inevitable, then you should get rid of the waste in the way 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 common small quantities created at the home 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. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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