What are Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Recyclable Materials?
Hazardous wastes and hazardous recyclable materials can come from a variety of sources. These sources include various industrial activities, such as the leftovers from oil refining, the manufacturing of chemicals and metal processing. Even certain everyday household products, such as batteries, computer and electronic waste, cleansers, paints and pesticides may be hazardous once discarded. In Canada, hazardous wastes are those which are destined for disposal, while hazardous recyclable materials are destined for recycling or recovery operations and exhibit hazardous properties, such as flammability, corrosivity, dangerously reactive, toxic, due to their formulation or chemical composition. Good management of hazardous wastes and hazardous recyclable materials will help avoid risks and protect the environment and human health. Various hazardous wastes and hazardous recyclable materials pose different risks depending on the nature of their hazard characteristics, such as the burning of s
