Ten tips to green your Halloween

On October 31 children and adults alike will be donning scary costumes, handing out sweets and partaking in other Halloween themed activities. A number of environmentally minded websites are offering advice on how to 'green your Halloween'

 

Halloween parties can create a lot of waste, dropped sweet wrappers, discarded plastic masks, and unwanted pumpkins. However in the build up to the event a number of ecologically minded websites such as eHow, alternative consumer, planet green and nature moms are giving tips on how to have fun whilst protecting the environment.

The top ten tips are: 

1.        Distribute Fair Trade chocolate, or organic sweets to 'trick or treaters'.
           Information about fair-trade products can be found at http://www.fairtrade.net/
2.       Collect the sweets in re-useable cotton bags or pillow cases, instead of plastic bags.
3.       Make costumes with re-usable or recyclable materials such as bed sheets.
4.       Use the waste generated by pumpkins, leaves and other organic material for compost.
5.       Reduce paper wastage by sending party invitations by email.
6.       Use recyclable and bio degradable plates and cups to serve food if real crockery is not practical
7.       Serve locally sourced party food
8.       Use organic or non-toxic face paints,  these are available to buy at www.amazon.com 
9.       Make decorations using natural, recyclable or unwanted resources such as leaves or
          discarded paper  plates. Tips on how to make decorations can be found here
10.     Create ambiance and save electricity by using candles rather than leaving lights on all night.

More tips such as these can be found at the following websites:

                                                                                                      Alternative consumer

                                                                                                      Planet Green

                                                                                                      eHow

                                                                                                      Nature Moms