28/10/2026
🎃 How you can reduce Halloween waste?
Halloween is a time for frighteningly good fun with pumpkins, costumes and sweets, but all this fun doesn’t have to come with a scary amount of waste.
Get creative with costumes:
🎃 Reduce what you buy new and try to make your costume from things you already have around the house. Think cardboard box robots and DIY witch hats from old bits of fabric and ghosts from old bedsheets - it’s a great time to get creative!
🎃 Reuse costumes from previous years – there’s no shame in being the one who always comes as a zombie if you’ve already got the costume, and it saves buying new.
🎃 If the kids have outgrown their costumes from last year, why not hunt around in a charity shop or online marketplaces to find something preloved? These are great places to take your outgrown costumes, too!
Tips to reduce Halloween waste:
🎃 Real pumpkins – carved or not, pumpkins of all shapes and sizes make the perfect Halloween decorations, with no plastic required.
🎃 Reusable buckets – get the kids to gather their trick or treating haul in a more sustainable option rather than something disposable.
🎃 Face paint instead of masks – painting a scary face is a great alternative to buying a plastic mask that could soon end up in the bin.
🎃 If you are buying sweets and chocolates for trick or treaters in large tubs, remember the tubs can now be recycled in your recycling bin at home.
For more information from Veolia click on the link below👇
https://www.nottinghamshire.veolia.co.uk/Halloween?utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=
