A lot of kids (and kids at heart) love the Halloween and go through great lengths decorating their homes and making costumes for trick or treating. We hope you’d enjoy all the festivities that goes with it, but spare a thought for the environment and heed some of the tips we’ve gathered around the net:
The daily green has posted lots of ways to green up your halloween:
- reuse costumes instead of buying new.
- trick and treat kids to organic lollipops, organic/fairtrade chocolates, money, recycled paper and pencils in loot bags.
- reverse trick and treat. This is something new to us. Global exchange encourages kids to educate adults by handing out Fairtrade chocolates with cards attached explaining what Fairtrade is. This is happening across the pond.
- have a party. celebrate at home instead of trick or treating. send electronic invites and trat kids to cupcake decorating and pumpkin carving.
- decorate with nature. instead of buying plastic decors.
- light up the night. use LEDs. non-toxic window paints. use candles made from beeswax or soy.
- turn it over to the kids. instead of buying decors from shops, have the kids make decorations. try to recycle stuff.
- try a new bag. use reusable bags to hold the loots, we sell organic, fairtade bags here at guui.
- save for next year. pack up costumes and decors, and save for next year.
and a few more:
- make sure to not waste the pumpkins by making soups and pies out of them.
- walk the kids around instead of driving them to go trick or treating.
- teach your kids to make sure they dispose of candy wrappers properly and that using flour and eggs is a bad trick.
- learn more about your halloween candies from the treehugger.
