Don’t just toss pumpkins
Kainna Frost and Jenna Falcone, kindergarten students at Port Coquitlam’s Castle Park elementary school, listen to a piano-playing ghost in the school’s haunted house, which is open today to students.
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Updated: October 29, 2009 2:41 PM
It’s better to eat Jack, put him in a box or send him back to where he came from than put him in the garbage.
Metro Vancouver has several green ways to deal with jack o’ lanterns after Halloween:
• Eat Jack — Pumpkins are high in fibre and roasted pumpkins seeds are nutritious and make a tasty snack. For recipes, search “pumpkin” at www.epicurious.com or visit www.pumpkinnook.com/cookbook.
• Put Jack in the box — Chop the pumpkin into thumb-sized pieces and put them into a backyard composter.
• Return Jack to his roots — Dig a shallow trench in the vegetable or flower garden and place chopped pieces of pumpkin in it. Fill in the trench and let Jack rest in peace.
• Throw Jack to the curb — Instead of putting it in the garbage to be taken to the landfill, some municipal yard waste collection programs, such as Port Coquitlam, will gladly take pumpkins.
Metro Vancouver calculates that if a quarter of households carve a Halloween pumpkin this week, that’s about 200,000 jack o’ lanterns, which means about 1,000 metric tonnes of pumpkin will need to be disposed of come Nov. 1.
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