Comments on: Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case

By: Rodney Pierce

Rodney Pierce — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:05:11 +0000

The hazards are definitely in the stores. I recently walked a retail store and identified more than a hundred products that would be deemed hazardous wastes when not saleable. Home Depot is not the first to have an incindent–theirs’ involved flammables mixed w/ oxidizers–fires have occurred in the past with this mix and others like aerosols. There are also many very dangerous reactions that produce gases very harmful to health. There has been a big box store burn to the ground and another retailer that had a warehouse fire in the recent past; Home Depot has gotten publicity, but they are not unique.

By: Craig Barney

Craig Barney — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:06:50 +0000

I agree with Ryan. Unless they were mixing pool chlorine or concentrated acids with flammable solvents, this should not happen. Were they accepting waste from their customers or others?

By: Ryan J Brown

Ryan J Brown — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:58:17 +0000

Do we know what the chemicals that were mixed to create an explosion? If so can you send me more information, because it seems almost impossible to have Home Depot possessing chemicals to create a mixture explosion. Maybe they had high flammable chemicals and someone accidentally heated it up and then exploded, I’ll believe that.