Don't Trash It, Smash It!
The Pumpkin Smash is an annual effort by communities to divert pumpkins from landfills by providing locations for residents to drop-off jack-o-lanterns to be composted. This year it will be held on Saturday, November 9th from 9am-12pm at the Lombard Common.
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Why Keep Pumpkins Out of the Landfill?
Composting is nature’s way of recycling with many benefits:
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Avoids landfill greenhouse gas emissions from decomposing organics (currently, landfills are the 3rd largest producers of methane in the U.S.!)
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Produces a useful, nutrient-dense soil amendment
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Pumpkins are 90% water which is great for our soil, not so good in our landfills
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Since 2014 the Pumpkin Smash has…
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Composted over 1012.40 tons of pumpkins
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Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 751.88 tons of CO2e
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Diverted 217,286.62 gallons of water from landfills