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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 expand existing landfills or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from home products. Hazardous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of humans and animals and are detrimental to the environment when handled improperly

Incorrect management of home waste has the potential to be extremely detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those common home products contain destructive, poisonous, or combustible chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not dealt with or managed properly.

Hazardous home waste should not be disposed of 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 hazardous waste leads to the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big areas, consequently impacting the health of persons over a wider area.

A few of these chemicals stay in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may get in the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the performance of the central nervous 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?

Check out the labels of products. In Saspamco and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to show the hazard to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out the label of products in your home and make it a habit of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur 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 damaging to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that hazardous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not harmed, do not have any leakages to lower the danger of infecting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in separate areas 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 constantly be the last resort. Why? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the issue of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is unavoidable, 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 big amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities produced at the home 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 lower waste. This is important if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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