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Did you know that at this time of year, Halloween can have a huge negative environmental impact? Other holidays around this same time of year play a big part as well, and I'm sure this doesn't come as any real big surprise, but the halloween-carbon-footprint is growing at quite a rate. You can turn it into a green halloween, and an eco-friendly-halloween instead. The paper litter alone the next day from Halloween night is the first thing so noticeable, not to mention the pumpkins splattered all over. Smashed pumpkins are a very familiar sight the day after halloween and it's really such an incredible waste.
Not only can you make so many delicious recipes like pies, and muffins from your pumpkins, but if you can remember to conserve pumpkin seeds you can cook up some interesting and tasty snacks from those as well.
Many of us buy boxes and boxes of things like chips and cheesies to hand out to trick-or-treaters. It's always been easy, convenient, and relatively cheap. The boxes do come in handy and are recyclable, but not everyone takes this into consideration. It's just alot of packaging and garbage for most people to figure out what to do with the next day. There are other options out there in terms of what to give out to the kids if you are concerned about nutrition and non-candy-halloween-treats .
The prices for costumes can vary from super-cheap to super-expensive, and of course an adult costume is going to be more expensive simply because of the additional material used. If you can avoid buying Halloween costumes at all, that is a bonus for you.
Try to do your best to make do with what you have at home. There are tips
available to make your eco-friendly-halloween even more fun when you
put together your own costume instead of buying it.
Homemade Costume Ideas
will come to you, if you stop and consider your resources.
Don't get me wrong, plastic pumpkin pails or baskets are good, but even they wind up in the garbage frequently just because of broken handles. Cloth bags are easy to handle, they hold more, and are reusable all year-round. Make this the most eco-friendly-halloween bag as possible.
This would definately be much safer for all concerned as well. Be sure your walk-way is well lit. If you can use solar lighting up to the entrance, that would be great. Compact fluorescent bulbs at your main door entrance come in different colors too, so they can serve as a decorative piece as well.
Get a cup of coffee, and listen to "Halloween Essentials", an interesting conversation about some great ideas for Halloween. It's about 30 minutes, so you may want to pop back later.
Halloween is such a great time that everyone looks forward to. Just a few frugal-halloween-tips can reduce our halloween-carbon-footprint greatly and not take away noticeably at all from the fun of it.
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