Household hazardous waste management: a review
Household hazardous waste is hazardous waste generated by households in relatively small quantities (between 1% and 4% of municipal solid waste) and containing toxic or labeled toxic, flammable, reactive, explosive or corrosive chemicals such as automobile products, cleaning products, personal care products, maintenance products, unused medications, insecticides, garden pesticides, products containing heavy metals, photographic chemicals. Many of these wastes are regulated at the industrial level in larger quantities.