Why Halloween is an ecological disaster

[NJCher]

It may seem daunting to change the way we celebrate a beloved holiday. It may also be necessary

Alexander Nazaryan·Senior, White House Correspondent

Tue, October 31, 2023 at 4:20 PM EDT·3 min read

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Every parent of young children has awoken on Nov. 1 to the aftermath of Halloween: piles of candy wrappers, discarded costumes, molding pumpkins and decorations demanding to be taken down.

Halloween is an expensive holiday, wreaking havoc on family budgets. And with children expected to consume as much as 7,000 calories on Oct. 31 because of all the added sugar in their diets, the holiday is also a public health calamity.

But scariest of all is the damage Halloween does to the planet.

All those candy wrappers have to go somewhere. So do all the plastic pumpkins, plastic vampire teeth, plastic Harry Potter wands. And where they go, for the most part, is into landfills and waterways, where they contribute to a plastics problem that has become a global challenge. New research suggests that many of the single-use plastics we discard turn into invisible particles called microplastics that can cause serious damage to human health.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-halloween-is-an-ecological-disaster-202020822.html

[cilla4progress]

1. I see it.

Yeah.

[58Sunliner]

2. This is true for every holiday. We need to change.

[Demovictory9]

3. Is moldy pumpkins so bad? 😔

[raging moderate]

4. Why do people buy new decorations every year?

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I have used the same orange plastic pumpkins for forty years! And a few other decorations for twenty - thirty years!

[NJCher]

5. Storage

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