Tour your home with our Detox Your Domicile booklet.

• Find places where toxic products are used or stored
• Make a plan to reduce their use
• Save and properly recycle containers
• Learn how hazardous products relate to air quality inside your home

Try our recipes for safe alternatives to hazardous products. These activities are great to do with kids!

Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center and U.S. EPA offer more tools to learn about toxics! Download FREE K-12 and Community curriculum modules at www.intheair.org - featuring “Detox Your Domicile” as a participatory skit for use in community organizations, neighborhood meetings or workplace, high school or church group settings.

Funding for this project has been provided by the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Marcus G. Rivas (left), air quality and solid waste specialist for U.S. EPA Region 7, demonstrates the science behind household products as “Dr. Detox.” Host Jean Ponzi (right) shops the cleaning product aisle of her local supermarket – finding hazards on all sides!

Detox Your Domicile
Make your home product-safe
Prevent household hazardous waste

Detox Your Domicile is a positive, resource-packed half-hour TV program designed to educate families about hazardous waste prevention, responsible handling of toxic products in the home, and consumer alternatives to such products. Produced in St. Louis, Missouri, this show presents health and safety practices for homes in any community.

Program host Jean Ponzi, a noted St. Louis environmental educator, picks up consumer-safety tips in the supermarket cleaning product aisle. Interviews feature a local family, a community air quality activist who suffers from asthma, and a Poison Control specialist. “Dr. Detox,” a U.S. EPA specialist in air quality and waste management, takes viewers into his lab to learn why many kinds of household products are hazardous and how anyone can make low-cost safer cleaning alternatives, using common kitchen products like baking soda, vinegar and cream of tarter. Recycling specialists from St. Louis County and St. Charles County agencies present local resources for environmentally responsible disposal of product leftovers, once they become “HHW,” or Household Hazardous Waste.

You can view the program online here, formatted as streaming QuickTime video files:

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• Full Movie: Detox your Domicile (26:58, 106.5 MB)
• Introduction (00:53, 3.2 MB)
• Chapter One: The Clemens Family (3:29, 13.5 MB)
• Chapter Two: Dr. Detox #1 (3:49, 13 MB)
• Chapter Three: Dangers (3:47, 15.6 MB)
• Chapter Four: Shopping (2:29, 13.9 MB)
• Chapter Five: Dr. Detox #2 (3:52, 13.5 MB)
• Chapter Six: Disposal (4:29, 17.5 MB)
• Chapter Seven: Dr. Detox #3 (2:02, 9.6 MB)
• Conclusion (2:05, 7.2 MB)

Detox Your Domicile is a video production of EarthWays Center, a division of Missouri Botanical Garden, in partnership with the Higher Education Channel of Greater St. Louis. Funding for this project has been provided by the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Charter Cable subscribers in the St. Louis area can view Detox Your Domicile on the Higher Education Channel. Check listings at www.hectv.org. DVD copies are available in public libraries throughout the St. Louis region, and in other Missouri communities.

For details, contact EarthWays Center.