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It is no secret that the amount of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting 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 Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from home products. Hazardous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of human beings and animals and are damaging to the environment when managed poorly

Incorrect management of home waste has the potential to be very damaging to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not recognize is that many of those common home products contain destructive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Hazardous home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gasoline 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 leads to the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, thereby affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

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

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

Read the labels of products. In Northcliff and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to show the risk to animals, human beings, 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 checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree 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 hazardous to human beings, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to decrease the risk of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in different areas from other harmful products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional usage.

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 resort. Why? Because there are no safe methods of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma 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 acquiring smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inescapable, 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 quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to control the normal small quantities produced at the home 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 innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is essential if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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