Pumpkin Smash

Hinsdale South High School Stadium Parking Lot 7401 Clarendon Hill Road Hours: Saturday Nov 9, 9am-12pm

The Pumpkin Smash is an annual effort by communities to divert pumpkins from landfills by providing locations for residents to drop-off jack-o-lanterns to be composted.

Last year's Pumpkin Smash:

• Composted over 241 tons of pumpkins (that's 482,000 lbs!)
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 173.34 tons of CO2e
• Diverted 51,828 gallons of water from landfills

Why Keep Pumpkins Out of the Landfill?

Composting is nature's way of recycling with many benefits:

• Avoids landfill greenhouse gas emissions from decomposing organics (currently, landfills are the 3rd largest producers of methane in the U.S.!)
• Produces a useful, nutrient-dense soil amendment
• Pumpkins are 90% water which is great for our soil, not so good in our landfills

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