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Handling Hazardous Household Waste-- Your Roles And Duties

It is clear that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing landfills or construct 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 people and animals and are destructive to the environment when handled poorly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be extremely destructive to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed properly.

Hazardous home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as regular waste. For instance, 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 causes the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, consequently impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may get in the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of numerous 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 Olmos Park 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 danger to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly check out the label of products in your home and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the very best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are hazardous to people, 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 lower the danger of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in different locations 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 prevent unintended use.

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? Because there are no safe methods of disposing 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, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of big quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to control the common small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of hazardous waste falls directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only happen when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is necessary if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Remember that Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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