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It is obvious that the amount of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a worrying rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household 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 humans and animals and are harmful to the environment when handled incorrectly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, harmful, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Hazardous home waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gas 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. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, consequently impacting the health of individuals over a broader area.

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

Bioaccumulation of harmful compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect 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?

Check out the labels of products. In Shavano Park and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the danger to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly check out the label of products in your home and make it a routine of checking out the labels of a product before deciding to acquire them.

What Can You Do to Manage Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products – Experts concur that the best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable 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 leakages to lower the risk of contaminating water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in separate locations from other harmful products.

Check products often to ensure that there are no leakages and damaged lids or bulging sides.

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid 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 resort. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either picking naturally degradable 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 dispose of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big amounts of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to regulate the common 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 occur when you contribute in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is vital 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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