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It is clear that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or construct brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from home products. Harmful 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 managed improperly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be very detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those typical home products contain destructive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled or managed properly.

Harmful home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For example, 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 cycle. Burning hazardous waste results in the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, therefore affecting the health of individuals over a wider area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and may enter the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous 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 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 Olmos and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including signs and words, to suggest the hazard 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 deciding to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the very best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are hazardous to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

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

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent 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 resort. Why? Because there are no safe ways 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, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to regulate the common small quantities created at the home 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 happen when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is important if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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