Casella Waste Systems Advocates for Composting at Pumpkin Smashing Event

Now that Halloween has passed, leftover pumpkins should head to the compost piles and thankfully, Casella Waste Systems have helped communities do just that.

Over the weekend, Casella hosted the Pumpkin Smash Compost Bash event in Morrisonville, N.Y. where the leftover gourds were smashed with mallets and thrown with slingshots, but the company also used the time to promote composting. Casella advocated for keeping the community’s pumpkins out of the landfill and, overall, reducing the amount of food waste in landfills where possible.

“We thought this would be a good way to let people know about composting, and have a good time,” Clinton County Landfill Division Manager Sean Lukas said.

“We’ve heard of other events, like ‘pumpkin chunkin’, and we thought it’d be a good idea. After Halloween, those pumpkins are just left out. Here, people can dispose of them and see a little bit of what happens here”

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