I am reliably informed that more than a million pumpkins are thrown away as soon as Halloween festivities are over. This adds to the £680m of food that is annually thrown away in the UK by an average family. In Suffolk alone some 43,000 tons of food waste goes to landfill sites.In addition to creative endeavour such as the carved pumpkin pictured here (one of some 30 examples on this website) , alternatives include making pumpkin pie or some other seasonal recipe (there are plenty on the web, this BBC site being particularly good), composting it, or at least having a go at roasting the seeds, which are delicious.
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