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Handling Hazardous Household Waste-- Your Roles And Responsibilities

It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing garbage dumps or construct 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 detrimental to the environment when managed poorly

Incorrect management of home waste has the potential to be very detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those typical home products contain corrosive, toxic, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed appropriately.

Hazardous home waste should not be gotten rid of 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 cycle. 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, consequently impacting the health of persons over a broader area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long time and might enter the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of various 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 Somerset and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide info on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to suggest the threat to animals, humans, 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 routine of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

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 start by avoiding the purchase of products which 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 stored in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to minimize the risk of contaminating 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 regularly to ensure that there are no leakages and damaged covers or bulging sides.

Always store products in their original containers to prevent unintentional 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 constantly 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 picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inescapable, then you should dispose of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to manage the normal small quantities created 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 play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize 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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