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It is clear that the amount of household waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to expand existing landfills or develop brand-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 impact plants, the health of people and animals and are damaging to the environment when dealt with poorly

Incorrect management of household waste has the potential to be very damaging to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common household products contain destructive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not handled 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 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 results in the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large areas, thus impacting the health of individuals over a wider area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of different 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 Schertz and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to indicate 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 routine of reading the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-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 that contain chemicals that are hazardous to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to decrease the threat of contaminating water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are stored in separate areas from other dangerous products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to prevent unintended use.

Ensure that these products are stored 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 hazardous waste. You can prevent the predicament of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller sized 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 large amounts of hazardous waste, the existence 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 directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only happen when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease 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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