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It is obvious that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or construct 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 harmful to the environment when managed poorly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be very harmful to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those typical home products contain corrosive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed effectively.

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed 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 hazardous waste results in the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large areas, thereby affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and may get in 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 numerous 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?

Check out the labels of products. In Noonan and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to show the threat to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out the label of products in your home and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage 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 that contain chemicals that are harmful 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 kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leaks to decrease the risk of infecting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in separate areas from other harmful products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional 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 always be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can prevent the issue of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or buying smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, 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 existence of laws to manage the common small quantities created at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the obligation for the management of hazardous waste falls directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease 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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