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It is no secret that the quantity of home waste produced is increasing every year at an alarming rate, and federal governments 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 impact plants, the health of human beings and animals and are destructive to the environment when managed poorly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be really destructive to the environment, people, 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 correctly.

Hazardous home waste should not be dealt with in the same way as routine waste. For example, gas 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 toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, therefore impacting the health of individuals over a larger area.

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

Bioaccumulation of dangerous substances in the systems of plants, animals, and human beings has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, development, impair the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the functioning of the central nervous systems and body 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 Verdi and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, including symbols and words, to suggest the hazard to animals, human beings, 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 purchase them.

What Can You Do to Handle Hazardous Waste?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts agree that the best way to control waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products that contain chemicals that are damaging to human beings, 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 harmed, do not have any leakages to minimize the risk of polluting water sources, land, human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are kept in separate locations from other dangerous products.

Check products regularly to ensure that there are no leakages and damaged lids or bulging sides.

Always store products in their initial containers to prevent unintended 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 constantly be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe ways 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, neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

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

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities created 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 take place when you play a role in finding innovative ways to re-use, recycle, or minimize waste. This is vital if we are to safeguard the environment and health of future generations. Bear In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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