A free, safe and environmentally responsible way to clear out harmful household products that don’t belong in your bin or down the drain.
Event details
📅 Saturday 14 November 2026
🕘 9.00 am –1.00 pm
📍 East Gippsland Livestock Exchange
A wide range of household chemicals will be accepted, including:
👉 See the full list of accepted items on DEECA’s website Detox Your Home
How to take part
Registration is required
Book your DetoxYour Home Bairnsdale spot now
Who’s behind Detox Your Home?
Detox Your Home is run by the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action in partnership with Council.
The event is 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 event is 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 the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action on a year-to-year basis.
For more information and to book for this year’s event, visit Detox Your Home