Sustainable Pumpkin Disposal: How to Use or Recycle Pumpkins After Halloween
Not sure what to do with pumpkins after Halloween? Come learn 9 eco-friendly ways to use, eat, recycle, or naturally dispose of pumpkins. Please don't throw pumpkins in the trash or into the woods!
Ingredients
- Pumpkins
Instructions
- Eat or preserve pumpkins, such as by roasting them or making homemade pumpkin puree to add to baked goods, soup, stew, chili, pasta, sauce, smoothies and more. Preserve pumpkin puree in the freezer, or dehydrate it into dry pumpkin powder.
- Roast pumpkin seeds as an easy healthy snack.
- Make healthy pumpkin dog treats. Dehydrate plain slices of pumpkin, feed dogs pumpkin puree, or use pumpkin in a special dog treat recipe.
- Make a pumpkin face mask to nourish and moisturize skin.
- Enjoy them longer as decor through November, or turn them into a pumpkin planter or pumpkin flower centerpiece.
- Donate pumpkins to a local food bank or pantry (whole pumpkins in good condition)
- Donate pumpkins to a local farm, zoo, or wildlife rescue as animal feed. Or, feed them to your own chickens or farm animals, including pigs, goats, sheep, cattle, and more.
- Compost pumpkins at home - or simply bury them in your yard!
- Compost through city green waste or other community pumpkin disposal programs.
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