Recycle Your Pumpkins At The First Pumpkin Palooza In Duluth

Once Halloween is over, it's time to take down the decorations and start thinking about when to bring out Santa and all your other holiday decor.

While you likely have a place to store your Halloween decorations until next year, you must also deal with your pumpkins, which are likely getting squishy by now.

While it may seem easy to simply throw them in your garbage bin, the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District has a better idea to benefit the environment and provide a fun afternoon for your family.

WLSSD Announces The 1st Annual Pumpkin Palooza

WLSSD has created Pumpkin Palooza, a fun pumpkin collection event, and fall celebration, to encourage the community to compost pumpkins rather than throw them away. Reducing landfill waste and improving soil are among the many benefits of composting.

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WLSSD recycles food and yard waste's nutrients and organic matter as compost.
Pumpkins collected at Pumpkin Palooza will be incorporated into WLSSD’s composting
process.

Pumpkin Palooza is set for Saturday, November 2, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the WLSSD Yard Waste Compost Site, at 2626 Courtland Street #13 in Duluth.

Not only can you drop off your pumpkins in exchange for a prize, but everyone can also enjoy fall activities at the event, including:

• Pumpkin Games
• Fall Crafts
• Hot Cocoa & Snacks
• Balloon Twisting by Lauralloons.

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WLSSD will also provide 20-minute compost site tours at 1, 2, & 3 p.m.

Everyone should remove all candles and inorganic materials from the pumpkins before dropping them off at Pumpkin Palooza.

The community is also encouraged to drop off fall leaves and yard waste. The Yard Waste Compost Site will close for the season after Saturday, November 23rd.

You can click the button above for more details on the WLSSD large-scale composting program.