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It is obvious that the amount of home waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and federal governments are under pressure to broaden existing landfills 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 damaging to the environment when managed improperly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be really damaging to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us may not recognize is that many of those typical home products contain corrosive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed effectively.

Hazardous home waste should not be gotten rid 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 poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large areas, consequently affecting the health of individuals over a wider area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and may go into the food cycle when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances 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?

Read the labels of products. In Sutherland Springs and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to suggest the danger to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

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

What Can You Do to Handle Contaminated Materials?

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 start by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are hazardous to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that harmful products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leakages to lower the risk of infecting water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in different areas from other harmful products.

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

Always store products in their initial containers to prevent unintentional 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 constantly be the last hope. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of getting rid of hazardous waste. You can prevent the issue of hazardous waste disposal by either selecting eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or acquiring smaller volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inescapable, then you should dispose of the waste in the way recommended 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 typical small quantities produced 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 happen when you contribute in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or lower waste. This is important 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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