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How to save hazardous waste?

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  Hazardous waste is a source of risk for the environment and health. These wastes, generated from industrial, agricultural, service and even domestic activities, constitute an environmental issue of special importance due to their volume (increasingly increasing) and as a consequence of the economic development process and its characteristics. .   Its problems are associated with various causes such as, for example, the presence of impurities in materials, low process technology, deficiencies in operational practices or the characteristics of products and substances at the end of their useful life, among others. Thus, the producer or manager of hazardous waste is obliged to keep the waste stored in adequate hygiene and safety conditions while they are in their possession.   The maximum duration of storage will be six months (in exceptional cases, the competent body of the Autonomous Communities where such storage is carried out, for duly justified reasons and provided that the pr