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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 expand existing landfills or construct new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from home products. Dangerous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of people and animals and are harmful to the environment when managed incorrectly

Improper management of home waste has the potential to be very harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common home products contain destructive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed effectively.

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as regular waste. For example, fuel can be buried in the ground, can impact 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 contaminated materials causes the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over big locations, therefore affecting the health of individuals over a larger area.

A few of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a very long time and might go into the food chain when the affected plants and animals are consumed.

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the functioning 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 Sweet Home 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 indicate the hazard to animals, people, 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 habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to purchase them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the very best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can begin by avoiding the purchase of products which 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 harmed, do not have any leaks to reduce the risk of infecting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are stored in different locations from other harmful products.

Check products often to ensure that there are no leaks and damaged covers or bulging sides.

Always store products in their initial containers to avoid 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 constantly be the last option. Why? Since there are no safe ways of getting rid of contaminated materials. You can avoid the problem of contaminated materials disposal by either picking biodegradable 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 unavoidable, then you should get rid of the waste in the manner prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to manage the handling and use of big amounts of contaminated materials, the existence of laws to manage the typical small quantities created at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of contaminated materials falls directly on the shoulders of the contaminated materials generators.

Protection of the environment can only take place when you contribute in finding creative 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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