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It is obvious that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden 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 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 harmful to the environment when handled improperly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be very harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not realize is that many of those typical household products contain destructive, toxic, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed appropriately.

Harmful household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as regular waste. For instance, 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 hazardous waste causes the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, consequently affecting 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 get in the food chain when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

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 various 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 Mico and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the threat 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 reading the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur that the very best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin 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 harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to minimize the risk of polluting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved 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 initial containers to prevent unintended 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 always be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can prevent the predicament of hazardous waste disposal by either picking naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

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

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

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