1. Hazardous Waste By: Jordan Evett

2. Types Of Hazardous Waste Toxic Waste Explosive Waste Flammable Waste Corrosive Waste Radioactive Waste

3. Toxic Waste Toxic wastes, or poisonous wastes, are wastes that can damage the health of humans and other organisms.

4. Explosive Wastes Explosive wastes are wastes that react very quickly when exposed to air or water, or that explode when they are dropped. Explosive wastes are also called reactive wastes.

5. Flammable Wastes Flammable wastes catch fire easily and can begin burning at fairly low temperatures.

6. Corrosive Waste Corrosive wastes are wastes that dissolve or eat through many materials.

7. Radioactive Waste Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain unstable atoms. These unstable atoms give off radiation that can cause cancer and other diseases. There are two types of radioactive wastes: high-level waste and low-level waste.

8. Health Effects Short-term exposure to hazardous wastes may cause irritation or more sever health problems. Long-term exposure to hazardous waste may cause diseases, such as cancer, and may damage body organs, including the brain, liver, kidneys, and lungs.

9. Disposal Of Hazardous Wastes Methods of hazardous waste disposal include burial in landfills, incineration, and breakdown buy living organisms. Another method involves storing liquid wastes in deep rock layers.

10. Locating Disposal Sites The safest thing to do is transport wastes to small local facilities instead of big facilities because that would increase the chance of an accident in which hazardous wastes are released into the earth materials.

11. How To Reduce Hazardous Waste Produce less At home, you can find substitutes for some hazardous household chemicals.

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