While Halloween decorations are as festive as they are frightening and fun, a lot of products we use to decorate our homes are made from single-use plastics that end up in landfills for years.
This October, make the switch to multi-use and eco-friendly décor. Here’s how you can celebrate creatively and sustainably:
- Thrift Store Finds: Explore local thrift stores for unique pieces you can dress up for Halloween and repurpose year-round. Or upcycle old sheets for an instant ghost costume!
- Host a Costume Exchange: Cross costume shopping off your list by inviting family and friends over for a Halloween costume exchange.
- Upcycle household items: Brooms, old sheets, that Hawaiian shirt you swore you’d get rid of, funny sunglasses—you can put a whole costume together by raiding your closets!
- Natural Face Paints: Swap plastic masks for non-toxic or natural face paints.
- DIY Decorations: Create spiderwebs with string and craft spiders from old egg cartons.
- Pumpkin Perfection: Keep uncarved pumpkins for Thanksgiving! (Bonus: Pumpkins make excellent natural fertilizer, helping reduce garden chemical pollutants from stormwater runoff.)
Remember to dispose of your holiday decorations properly in covered receptacles to ensure they don’t become litter that could end up in our storm drains or waterways.