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It is no secret that the amount of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying 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 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 human beings and animals and are detrimental to the environment when handled incorrectly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not realize is that many of those typical home products contain corrosive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Harmful home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as regular waste. For example, 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 chain. Burning contaminated materials leads to the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large areas, thus impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and might get in the food chain when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, 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 Quihi and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to show the threat to animals, human beings, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always read the label of products in your home and make it a habit of reading 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 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 human beings, 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 reduce the danger of infecting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in separate 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 saved 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? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can prevent the issue 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 sized volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is inescapable, then you should dispose of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large quantities of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of contaminated materials falls squarely on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only happen when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is essential 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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