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Toxic or hazardous waste from industry and municipal garbage includes a wide range of toxic chemicals like PCBs, solvents, pesticides, mercury, radioactive materials and biologic or infectious waste.
The largest components of hazardous waste are the unwanted byproducts of results industrial processes. Hazardous wastes can present immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. 
Many household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients are also considered to be “hazardous waste”. These include paints, cleaners, oils, batteries, and pesticides. Improper disposal of household hazardous wastes by pouring them down the drain, on the ground, into storm sewers, or disposing of them in the general rubbish collection, pollute the environment and pose a threat to human health.
Hazardous wastes require special transport and handling to ensure their environmentally sound management.
Industry is required to report estimates of some hazardous wastes to the National Pollutant Inventory. To learn more read NTN’s paper, ‘Australia’s NPI, is it serving the Communities Right to know’.
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List of household products that may contain toxic chemicals and add to hazardous wastes.
Australia’s Hazardous HCB Waste Stockpile
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