What to Do With That Rotting Pumpkin Corpse
Millions end up rotting in landfills. But Halloween’s leftover pumpkins don’t have to go to waste.
After the trick-or-treaters have gone home, what becomes of the Halloween pumpkins that have outlived their decorative purpose?
You might be tempted just to throw them all away—and that’s certainly what many people do. Every year, more than get tossed out and left to rot in America’s landfills. Some are thrown away the day after Halloween, contributing to the in the U.S. When left to decompose in a landfill, reported that in the U.K., people are expected to throw away a record this year.)
