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It is no secret that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or develop new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

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

Incorrect management of household waste has the potential to be really destructive to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical household products contain corrosive, toxic, or flammable chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not handled or managed properly.

Hazardous household waste should not be disposed of in the same way as routine waste. For example, gasoline 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 contaminated materials causes the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, consequently impacting the health of persons over a larger area.

A few of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might go into the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance 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 Rossville and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to suggest the danger 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 practice of checking out the labels of a product before deciding 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 start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are hazardous to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to reduce the danger of polluting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other hazardous products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional 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 always 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 dilemma of contaminated materials disposal by either choosing eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of large amounts of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to manage the typical small quantities generated at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of contaminated materials falls directly on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

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

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