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It is obvious that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing garbage dumps or develop new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household 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 humans and animals and are detrimental to the environment when dealt with improperly

Improper management of household waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common household products contain destructive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed effectively.

Dangerous household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine 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 cycle. Burning contaminated materials leads to the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, thus impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and might get in the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning 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?

Read the labels of products. In Pipe Creek 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 indicate the danger to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always read the label of products in your household and make it a practice of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur that the 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 harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable 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 leaks to minimize the danger of polluting water sources, land, humans, 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 leaks and damaged 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 constantly be the last option. Why? Since there are no safe ways of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the predicament of contaminated materials disposal by either picking biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big quantities of contaminated materials, 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 contaminated materials falls squarely on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is vital if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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