Question

Remy is smoking too closely to a building that manufactures fertilizer. When he puts out his cigarette near the hazardous waste, it sparks a fire because the fertilizer is flammable. What kind of hazard did the chemical waste cause?

Answer 1

Answer:

Fire hazard

When Remy smoked the cigarette and threw is in the hazardous waste, the fertilizer aught fire. The reason was that the waste was inflammable which means that it can catch fire easily.

It was a fire hazard and immediate measures must be taken to tone down the fire.  If the fire is not controlled, it can spread and other chemicals can also catch fire causing the factory to burn down to ashes.

Answer 2

Hazardous chemical wastes are substances, energy and/or other components that, due to their nature, concentration and/or amount, both directly and indirectly, can pollute, damage the environment, and/or can endanger the environment, health, survival humans and other living things.

Further Explanation

Waste characteristics

Explosive waste is waste that at standard temperatures and pressures (25 ° C, 760 mmHg) can explode or through chemical and/or physical reactions can produce gases with high temperature and pressure that can quickly damage the surrounding environment.

Flammable waste is waste that has one of the following characteristics:

• Waste in the form of a liquid containing alcohol less than 24% by volume and/or at a flashpoint of no more than 60 ° C (140 OF) will ignite when it comes in contact with fire, sparks or other sources of ignition at an air pressure of 760 mmHg.
• Non-liquid waste, which at standard temperature and pressure (25 C, 760 mmHg) can easily cause fires through friction, absorption of water vapor or chemical changes spontaneously and if burned can cause continuous fires.
• Is a pressurized waste that is flammable.
• Is an oxidizing waste.

Toxic waste is waste that contains pollutants that are toxic to humans or the environment that can cause death or serious illness if it enters the body through breathing, skin or mouth.

Waste that causes infection. Amputated parts of the human body and fluids from the human body affected by the infection, waste from laboratories or other waste infected with germs that can be contagious.

Corrosive waste is waste that has one of the following characteristics:

• Causes irritation (burning) of the skin.
• Causing the process of rusting on steel plates (SAE 1020) with a corrosion rate greater than 6.35 mm/year with a test temperature of 55 ° C.
• Having a pH equal to or less than 2 for acidic wastes and equal or greater than 12.5 for alkaline ones.

Waste that is reactive is waste that has one of the following characteristics:

• Waste that is normally unstable and can cause changes without detonation.
• Waste that can react violently with water
• Waste that when mixed with water has the potential to cause an explosion, producing toxic amounts of gas, vapor or toxic smoke that are harmful to human health and the environment.
• Is cyanide, sulfide or ammonia waste which at a pH between 2 and 12.5 can produce toxic gases, vapors or smoke in quantities that endanger human health and the environment.
• Explosive waste or reacting at standard temperatures and pressures (25 C, 760 mmHg).
• Waste causes fire due to releasing or receiving oxygen or organic peroxide which is unstable at high temperatures.

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Class: High School

Subject: Health

Keywords: waste, hazardous, chemical