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Managing Hazardous Home Waste-- Your Roles And Obligations

It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or develop brand-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 affect plants, the health of people and animals and are destructive to the environment when handled poorly

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

Hazardous home 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 cycle. Burning hazardous waste causes the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, consequently affecting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and might get in the food cycle when the impacted plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the performance of the central nerve 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 Selma and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including signs and words, to show the hazard to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your home and make it a routine of reading the labels of a product before deciding to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-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 biodegradable or friendly to the environment.

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

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to prevent unintended use.

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 hope. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing biodegradable products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of large amounts of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to regulate the normal small quantities generated at the home 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 contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce 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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