SV’s role
We deliver the Detox Your Home program in partnership with local councils. We coordinate the events calendar, provides a booking platform, and promotes the events. The local council delivers the event within their LGA on the day itself.
Detox Your Home
Last updated: 22 April 2024
The Detox Your Home program is an events program across Victoria to safely dispose of unwanted toxic household chemicals, keep them out of landfill and make recycling work through correct recycling.
Start date:
1994
End date:
Ongoing
Location:
Statewide
Eligibility:
all Victorian households
Partners:
Local councils
Key components:
Detox Your Home local events, campaign assets for councils, Eventbrite booking platform
Participants:
40 Detox events per year
Funding:
Sustainability Fund
How it works
Local councils typically hold one drop off event a year, with approximately forty pop-up events hosted annually around Victoria, coordinated and supported by us. All Victorians are eligible and book a place via our booking platform.
The Detox Your Home pop up events are promoted by the hosting council in the relevant postcode areas, and also used as a reminder on how to dispose of chemicals safely, and to promote the permanent transfer stations that are available in the area all year round.
Information is provided to householders before the event on accepted items in the toxic household chemical category and these items are dropped off at the advertised location. The items are immediately sorted by qualified chemists and transported to a specialist waste treatment facility where they are either repurposed, recycled or stored in secure landfills.