The kids love Halloween and we do some really nice stuff together as a family around this time of year. However, I’ve been thinking about how Halloween is also one of the most wasteful celebrations of the year. So I’ve spent some time looking into ways of having a more sustainable Halloween.
How To Have A Sustainable Halloween
Sustainable Halloween Costumes
Long gone are the days when ‘if’, you dressed up it was a bin liner and a passed down witches hat, or a pillowcase over your head with eyes cut out. Now we are encouraged to buy a new costume for the kids each year. Not only that, it’s not like other costumes where they can hopefully get lots of wear out of them. You are restricted to one day of the year if you opt for a specific Halloween themed one.
“It is estimated around 7 million Halloween costumes are disposed of each year in the UK.
Creating 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste this year” Telegraph
Instead you can….
Look in charity shops
Search online local selling pages
Have a look on ebay – if you order now then they will still arrive in time
Keep costumes and pass them down to younger siblings or friends
Swap with local families
Get creative and make your own
Use what you already have.
If you have got a costume you no longer need, please don’t put it in the bin. Instead, sell It or donate it.
For us, Halloween is all part of Autumn and the change of seasons. If you make it about experiences rather than items like the plastic spiders and costumes and more about picking pumpkins, baking and crafting then you will easily have a more sustainable Halloween.
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