Decor-eat your Pumpkin this Halloween! and Recycling your Batteries

Decor-eat your pumpkin this Halloween

If you think a carved pumpkin is scary… think again! A terrifying 15 million pumpkins are due to be left uneaten this Halloween! Instead of carving your pumpkin this year, save yourself the mess and decor-eat it instead! Here are some great ideas to get you started:

• Toothpicks studded with squishy sweets are an easy way to make a scary face
• Decorate it like a cake, with icing and sprinkles to create a spooky scene
• Get sticky and add features like wings, horns, ears and more to your pumpkin using a bit of icing or double sided sticky tape to keep them in place.

Once the decorating is done, your pumpkin will keep fresh until you are ready to carve it up into a delicious meal. Roast, blend, bake or fry it, there are so many ways you can eat and enjoy your pumpkin! From Pumpkin Nachos to the humble pumpkin pie, Hubbub have lots of recipe inspiration available at www.hubbub.org.uk to help you #EatYourPumpkin this Halloween.

Saving food from the bin isn’t just for Halloween, visit Love Food Hate Waste to find lots of tips to help you make the most of your food at home, save money and our planet all year round.

Don’t let your zombie batteries come back to haunt you this Halloween

When there’s no more life in your battery, it can still be positively dangerous…Throwing dead batteries away with other rubbish can turn them into dangerous zombies!

Zombie batteries hiding in rubbish or recycling are likely to be squashed, compacted, punctured, shredded or soaked in liquids. This can cause batteries to get very hot and ignite or even explode, resulting in fires that put the lives of collection teams and staff at waste and recycling facilities at risk.

Don’t run the risk of a dead battery coming back to haunt you this Halloween, we offer an easy way to recycle your household batteries, so please:

• Put your used batteries in a small, clear plastic bag and seal it when full.
• Place the sealed bag on top of your black or orange lidded bin or sacks on your normal day of collection.

Alternatively, you can find your nearest battery recycling point at www.takecharge.org.uk.

Make sure you also remove hidden batteries from electrical items such as electric toothbrushes or children’s toys if you can, before taking items to the Household Waste Recycling Centre on Barkers Lane or a local small electrical recycling drop off point.