Sustainably Enjoy Halloween

1. Go Green For Halloween: 10 ways to avoid
monstrous effects on our earth

2. Tip #1

3. Reusing Halloween Costumes and Donate Old Ones
● Instead of rebuying multiple halloween costumes every year, save
money and waste by sharing costumes with your friends, or by
recycling past costumes by turning them into another
costume/decoration
● Donate your old costumes to local thrift stores or consignment shops
so that others may use them. This results in less material waste and
will help you declutter your closet!

4. Tip #2

5. Using things around your home to make costumes
Instead of going out and spending money on a halloween costume, look
around your house for some household items that can be repurposed into a
costume! Some examples of this are:
● Using an old yoga mat to create different shapes, such as a pizza or
christmas tree.
● Using an old laundry basket with a hole in the bottom to create a
flower pot effect.
● Using a cardboard box to create a variety of costumes from astronauts
to PacMan.

6. Tip #3

7. clean up waste after Halloween
● Trick or treating can be a mecca for littering in your neighborhood.
Make sure to avoid littering candy wrappers by bringing an extra bag
with you for wrappers when you go out this halloween.
● Take time the day after halloween to clean up leftover silly sting,
costume accessories, and wrappers that have been left behind. These
things can be harmful to animals if ingested and are bad for the
environment!

8. Tip #4

9. Use reusable bags for trick or treating/ pillow cases
● There are many different ways to be Green on Halloween, and having a
reusable Halloween bag is one easy step to take.
● By using a plastic bag, which is already bad for the environment, you
are already polluting the earth. If you give use a reusable bag that you
can use every year or a pillow case, there is less of a chance for the
bag to break and your saving money on not having to buy a new bag
each year.

10. Tip #5

11. Terracycle
● Terracycle is a company that provides free collection programs for
hard to recycle materials which they then turn into affordable green
products.
● In addition to recycling these materials Terracycle also uses upcycling
to create new goods.

12. Tip #6

13. ● Instead of having all of your friends and family drive to one destination
separately, have one or two people drive and bring everyone else, or
use a ride sharing service like Lyft, Uber or a Taxi.
● By doing this you cut down of the use of gas being used for one
occasion and minimize the pollution for the cars.
Carpool with friends to go trick or treating or to a party

14. Tip #7

15. Use non toxic costume makeup and face paint
● Using Vegan, and Cruelty Free makeup is easier to find nowadays, but
face paint and makeup especially made for Halloween isn't as easy to
find. But it is extremely important to be safe and cautious of what you
are putting on your face.
● The best way to go about it is not buying the cheap face paint from
costume stores. Buying actual makeup from places that sell it like Ulta
Beauty, Sephora, Walmart, Target etc. Also always read the ingredients
an whether a product is safe to put on your face.

16. Tip #8

17. Reuse Pumpkins!
Repurposing pumpkins after Halloween is a fun and eco-friendly activity!
There are multiple things that you can do with your pumpkins in order to
reuse them!
● Roast pumpkin seeds for for a healthy snack!
● Cut up pumpkin pieces to feed wildlife or fill your garden’s squirrel
feeders with seeds opposed to buying bagged animal food.
● Plant your seeds and grow pumpkins for next year! Use the outside of
your pumpkin for your compost bin

18. Tip #9

19. Look at second hand stores for costumes
● Looking for a Halloween costume and finding what you need to
complete a outfit can be hard. But what you might need could be
available at a second hand store like GoodWill.
● Getting items at a Thrift store usually make the items cheaper and
there isn't any waste of product when your reusing someone else's
costume or clothing item that they aren't using.

20. Tip #10

21. Recycle Halloween Candy To Make other Desserts!
Although the same old candy can get repetitive, there are fun ways to
repurpose your halloween candy so that it doesn’t go to waste.
Here are some things you can use it for!
Melt Hershey chocolate to drizzle over cookies, brownies, fruit and
other sweets.
Crush KitKats, Oreos, Snickers, and a variety of candy to sprinkle over
ice cream.
Decorate a cake or cupcakes with your extra candy! A great example is
making dirt cupcakes using gummy worms and oreos.