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It is obvious that the amount of household waste produced is increasing every year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing land fills or build new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home 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 harmful to the environment when dealt with improperly

Inappropriate management of household waste has the potential to be very harmful to the environment, people, and animals. What many of us may not realize is that many of those typical household products contain destructive, hazardous, or combustible chemicals that can be harmful to the environment if not handled or managed correctly.

Dangerous household waste should not be disposed of 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 contaminated materials results in the release of hazardous chemicals and fumes in the air. When released into the environment, these chemicals are dispersed over large areas, thereby affecting the health of individuals over a larger area.

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

Bioaccumulation of harmful substances in the systems of plants, animals, and humans has the potential to impact their reproductive lives, growth, hinder the function of numerous organs such as the liver and kidneys, impact the functioning of the central nerve 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?

Read the labels of products. In Walnut Grove and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide information on the constituents of the products, consisting of signs and words, to show the danger to animals, humans, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Always check out 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 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 which contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are naturally degradable 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 leaks to lower the danger of contaminating water sources, land, humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that destructive products like acids are kept in different areas from other harmful products.

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

Always store products in their original containers to avoid 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 methods of disposing of contaminated materials. You can avoid the predicament of contaminated materials disposal by either picking naturally degradable 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 unavoidable, 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 amounts of contaminated materials, the presence of laws to manage the normal small quantities created at the household is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of contaminated materials falls squarely 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 lower waste. This is necessary 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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