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Detox Your Home – East Gippsland event
Got unwanted chemicals at home? Let’s detox!
The Detox Your Home program is coming to East Gippsland, giving you the chance to safely dispose of common household chemicals – for free.
Event details
📅 Saturday 25 October 2025
🕘 9.00 am – 1.00 pm
📍 East Gippsland Livestock Exchange
This is a free, safe and environmentally responsible way to clear out harmful household products that don’t belong in your bin or down the drain.
What you can bring
A wide range of household chemicals will be accepted, including:
- Household cleaners
- Pool chemicals
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Paint strippers and solvents
- Fluorescent tubes
👉 See the full list of accepted items on Sustainability Victoria’s website.
Why it matters
Hazardous chemicals can cause serious harm to:
- Our environment
- Wildlife
- Human health
By taking part, you’ll help protect our waterways, wildlife, and community – making East Gippsland safer and cleaner.
How to take part
✅ Registration is required
Book your spot now through Sustainability Victoria.
Who’s behind Detox Your Home?
Detox Your Home is run by Sustainability Victoria in partnership with East Gippsland Shire Council. The events are a free and convenient service for safe disposal of unwanted household chemicals. Common products such as weedkiller, pesticides, cleaning chemicals, cosmetics, and cooking oil are all materials harmful to the environment and should not be placed in kerbside bins or poured down sinks.
Each Detox Your Home event collects around 4 tonnes of hazardous chemicals keeping them out of landfill and waterways and making homes safer.
The events are staffed by expert chemists who identify and sort the chemicals for safe transport back to a licensed facility in Melbourne where they are processed for reuse or safe disposal. Chemicals collected are processed and recovered or recycled wherever possible. If they cannot be reused in any way, they are safely disposed of.
Detox your Home events are funded by state government through Sustainability Victoria on a year-to-year basis.
For more information and to book for this year’s event visit, Detox Your Home
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No-free green waste disposal in November
Free green waste disposal helps residents prepare for fire season
We are encouraging residents to get ready for the upcoming fire season by taking advantage of our no-fee green waste disposal period throughout November.
The initiative allows residents to dispose of up to four cubic metres of green waste per day – free of charge – at Bairnsdale Landfill and transfer stations that accept green waste. The program runs throughout November.
The annual no-fee period is designed to make it easier for residents to prepare their properties and reduce fire risk across the region. Clearing dry vegetation and garden waste is one of the most effective ways to reduce fire hazards around homes.
Accepted green waste includes branches, leaves, grass clippings and other vegetation. Items such as timber, treated pine and manufactured board are not accepted as green waste.
Our no-fee green waste disposal period complements our broader fire season preparations – including roadside slashing and vegetation management along more than 6,000 kilometres of roadsides across the shire.
Fire preparedness is a shared responsibility, and by taking part in this program, residents can help make our shire safer for everyone.
For a full list of transfer station and landfill locations and opening hours, visit eastgippsland.vic.gov.au/landfills-and-transfer-stations or call 5153 9500.