Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...

From carving jack-o-lanterns to baking pies, pumpkins are a staple of fall festivities and Halloween. According to the USDA, American farmers produced more than 1.6 billion pounds of pumpkins last ...

Whole or carved pumpkins make excellent compost, but not all pumpkins should be composted. Every year, about 1.3 billion pumpkins are thrown in the trash in the United States. However, carved, whole, ...

Now that Halloween is over, what do people do with their leftover jack-o-lanterns? Resource Renew hosted their 2nd Annual Pumpkin Palooza on Saturday, and began composting pumpkins of all shapes and ...

There are plenty of young children living on my street, and over Halloween, the evidence is right before my eyes. It warrants a street name change to Pumpkin Lane. And I know that there are plenty of ...

Summit Roll-Offs and the High County Conservation Center will be offering free pumpkin composting at the Breckenridge, Frisco and Silverthorne Recycling Centers until Sunday, Nov. 17. Candles, lights, ...