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Health Hazards Associated with Household Hazardous Waste Stream Management Along with the Municipal Waste Stream

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This chapter aims to deal with the household hazardous waste (HHW) stream and its influence on the environment and solid waste management (SWM) facilities personnel, because this waste stream management is dealt with as a part of the municipal waste. Despite the fact that HHW fraction is not clearly identified in EU legislation, its impact is high. To this largely contributes the hosted chemical compounds and the lack of segregation from the municipal solid waste. Desk research involving literature regarding the xenobiotic substances, commercial research of the specific products, as well as overall study of the waste management field were conducted in order to cover the gap among theory (estimation of the hazardousness of this waste stream) and direct effect on the environment and humans as well. In particular, in the frame of this research, the cancer risk and the overall risk based on the daily intake for waste management facilities personnel is calculated. Overall, both aspects, namely, the chemical content and hazard of this waste stream, are pinpointed, leading to concrete conclusions regarding the introduced risk. About 65% of the chemical compounds hosted in garden care products of the HHW stream pose hazard to the environment, and about 52% of the cleaning products chemicals are harmful and irritating for the humans and SWM facilities personnel in particular.

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Abbreviations

CR:

Cancer risk

HHW:

Hazardous household waste

HR:

Hazard risk

mE:

Microenvironments

MRF:

Mechanical recycling facilities

MSW:

Municipal solid waste

SWM:

Solid waste management

TLV:

Threshold limit value

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  1. Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stamatia Kontogianni & Nicolas Moussiopoulos

  2. Institute of Environmental and Water Studies, Birzeit University, Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine

    Issam A. Al-Khatib

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Kontogianni, S., Moussiopoulos, N., Al-Khatib, I.A. (2020). Health Hazards Associated with Household Hazardous Waste Stream Management Along with the Municipal Waste Stream. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_199-1

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