25-10-2015 | 18,000 tonnes of pumpkin to landfill? No thanks, let’s make a pie!
Halloween is upon us and days are numbered for our gourd-ous friends, the pumpkins. 2 in 5 of us will buy one, carve and discard after the candle we place in their belly causes their grin to sag and the bin to beckon.
On average we waste 18,000 tonnes of edible pumpkins at Halloween, that’s the same as 1,500 double decker buses going to landfill. Halloween might be a time for scares but we found this needless waste a little too scary.
#PumpkinRescue is a celebration of food; one which calls for cooking and composting of our favourite spooky staple.
There are 20 festivals going on across the UK this year (+ plus one in the States!)
#PumpkinRescue Tweethon on the 28th October. They’ll be sharing 100’s of ways to give your pumpkin or squash a dignified end.
Source: Hubbub.org.uk