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It is obvious that the quantity of household waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills or construct new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from household products. Harmful 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 dealt with incorrectly

Incorrect management of household waste has the potential to be very destructive to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those common household products contain destructive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not dealt with or managed properly.

Harmful household waste should not be disposed of 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 causes the release of harmful chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, therefore impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of numerous 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 San Geronimo and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the risk to animals, people, 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 routine of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree 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 damaging to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leaks to decrease the danger of infecting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are saved in different locations from other harmful products.

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leaks and broken lids or bulging sides.

Always store products in their initial 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 always be the last option. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the problem of hazardous waste disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, 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 way recommended on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large amounts of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to control the typical small quantities produced at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of hazardous waste falls squarely on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

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

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