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It is obvious that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming 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 Household Waste?

Household 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 people and animals and are harmful to the environment when managed incorrectly

Incorrect management of home waste has the potential to be really harmful to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be hazardous to the environment if not dealt with or managed correctly.

Harmful home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine 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 causes the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large locations, therefore affecting the health of individuals over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might go into the food chain when the impacted plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of hazardous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, impair 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 Schattel 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 indicate the threat to animals, people, 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 practice of checking out the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts agree that the very best way to manage 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 people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable 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 leaks to reduce the risk of infecting 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 frequently to ensure that there are no leaks and damaged covers or bulging sides.

Always store products in their initial containers to prevent unintended 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 option. Why? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting naturally degradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inevitable, then you should get rid of the waste in the way prescribed on the label.

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

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

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