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It is clear that the amount of household waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing land fills or build brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

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

Incorrect management of household waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not realize is that many of those common household products contain destructive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed appropriately.

Harmful household waste should not be dealt with in the same way as routine 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 causes the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large locations, therefore impacting the health of persons over a larger area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, 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?

Read the labels of products. In Luxello and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the danger to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your household and make it a routine of reading the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur 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 which contain chemicals that are damaging to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

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

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

Constantly store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional use.

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? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the problem of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to manage the normal small quantities generated at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of hazardous waste falls directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only take place when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is essential if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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