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It is no secret that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing landfills or develop brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from household products. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of people and animals and are destructive to the environment when managed incorrectly

Inappropriate management of household 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 typical household products contain corrosive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed properly.

Dangerous household waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For instance, fuel can be buried in the ground, can affect 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 hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, thus affecting the health of individuals over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and may enter the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect 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 Pearson 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, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out the label of products in your household and make it a habit of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase 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 damaging 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 harmed, do not have any leakages to reduce the threat of infecting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are stored in different locations from other dangerous products.

Check products often to ensure that there are no leakages and damaged covers or bulging sides.

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

Ensure that these products are stored 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? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big amounts of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities generated at the household 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 happen when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is necessary if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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