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Handling Dangerous Household Waste-- Your Roles And Responsibilities

It is no secret that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a worrying rate, and government are under pressure to broaden existing landfills or construct new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Household Waste?

Household waste is leftover from household products. Dangerous household waste are household products which contain chemicals that have the potential to impact plants, the health of humans and animals and are detrimental to the environment when managed improperly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be really detrimental to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not understand is that many of those common household products contain corrosive, poisonous, or flammable chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed appropriately.

Dangerous household waste should not be gotten rid of in the same way as routine waste. For instance, gasoline 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 hazardous waste causes the release of poisonous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over big locations, thereby affecting the health of individuals over a wider area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, hinder the function of various organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact 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 Universal City and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to show the hazard to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

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

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

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 begin by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are damaging 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 reduce the risk of contaminating water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other dangerous products.

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

Constantly store products in their initial containers to avoid unintentional use.

Ensure that these products are kept in a place where children and animals have no access to them.

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should always be the last hope. Why? Since there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the problem of hazardous waste disposal by either picking eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, neighbors, or family or buying smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, nevertheless, disposal is inevitable, then you should dispose of the waste in the way prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to regulate the handling and use of big quantities of hazardous waste, the presence of laws to regulate the typical small quantities produced at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility 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 innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or reduce waste. This is vital if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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