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After picking out your pumpkins and using them for baking, cooking, carving and decorating — what you do with them after matters.
To reduce your carbon footprint, remember to compost them.
According to experts, breaking them into pieces and adding leaves will help them break-down faster than leaving them whole.
Once your pumpkins are cleaned, cut in pieces and covered in leaves in your compost, they should be all done composting within a few months.
If you don’t have your own way to compost your pumpkins, some local farms might be willing to take your soft pumpkins to turn into feed for their animals.
Unfortunately far too many pumpkins still end up in the garbage and add to the food waste in landfills.