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It is obvious that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing land fills or build 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 handled poorly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Dangerous home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big areas, thereby 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 might enter the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance 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?

Read the labels of products. In Marion 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 danger to animals, people, 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 habit of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur 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 damaging to people, 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 decrease the threat of contaminating water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in different areas from other harmful 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 avoid unintended use.

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 constantly be the last option. Why? Because there are no safe methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the issue of contaminated materials disposal by either picking biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the typical 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 creative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is necessary 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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