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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing year after year at an alarming rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing land fills or build 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 humans and animals and are destructive to the environment when handled improperly

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

Hazardous home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gasoline 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. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, thereby impacting the health of persons over a wider area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and may enter the food chain when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of numerous 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?

Read the labels of products. In Silver Hills 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 show the hazard 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 habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

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 that contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to minimize the risk of polluting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are stored in separate locations from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their original containers to prevent unintended usage.

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? Because there are no safe ways of disposing of hazardous waste. You can prevent the dilemma of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or buying smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to regulate the common small quantities generated at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the duty for the management of hazardous waste falls squarely on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only take place when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is essential if we are to protect the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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