What are the most common types of chemical waste?
The environment is left with some kind of waste from every activity. To be exact, around 7.4 billion population adds waste quickly. Numbers are frightening if you look at the number of hazardous waste generated and disposed of. Global production of chemical waste each year has been steadily increasing every year.
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It is a common thought that a small amount of hazardous household waste produced makes a minimal impact on the environment. Chemical waste can be found in manufacturing facilities high school labs and hospitals. It is of utmost importance to properly dispose of the waste because chemical waste poses risk to not only the environment but to lab workers, students and residents. In addition, it also affected the people living in the surrounding areas of lab facilities as well.
Hazards Vs Risk:
The terms “hazard” and “risk” seems to have meanings to most of us but in reality, are entirely different. About chemicals though, the terms are quite different.
Hazard – refers to a chemical substance that possesses inherent properties that can cause harm to a person and the environment.
Risk – Risk is the possibility of exposure to a chemical substance, under specific conditions.
To understand the risk, we need to understand what the inherent hazard is and the degree of exposure. As hazardous material always poses risks and threats. The harm being done by hazardous material when exposed to certain things.
We understand this by taking the example of hydrofluoric acid.
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