If you are reading this, you are probably getting ready for the spooky season. Find our latest guidance on celebrating the events in the most stylish, sustainable, and safest way possible.

Halloween

This year Halloween falls on Tuesday 31 October.

If you're planning to head out for some trick or treating, stay safe by ensuring all children are fully supervised by an adult at all times.

Remember that not everyone celebrates Halloween or likes people knocking on their doors at night. If you see a 'no trick or treat' poster or if nobody answers the door, respect other residents by being considerate and leaving.

If you don't want trick or treaters (or if you're happy to welcome them), you can download a Halloween poster to display in your window on 31 October.

Decorations

Decorations, costumes and pumpkins are still very much part of our Halloween celebrations and below are our top recycling tips to make sure that your Halloween is (ghoulishly) green:

There are so many ways to make fun decorations at home, without buying lots of plastic ones!

• Use the cardboard insides of your loo roll and paint them! You could turn them into ghosts or witches, zombies or whatever your like. They can be decorations or you could hide sweets in them and hide them around the house for some spooky hide and seek with the people in your household! 
• Create bedsheet ghosts from sheets you don't mind cutting up or painting.
• Make monsters from papier-mâché with a bit of flour, water, and newspaper.
• Avoid cheap plastic toys and look for items with minimal packaging.

Pumpkins
Every year so many pumpkins are wasted! Check out what you can do instead of throwing it away below.

• Turn it into soup! Here's the Love Food Hate Waste recipe for pumpkin soup
• Don't dump those pumpkin seeds after carving! Clean, salt, and roast them for a real treat.
• Turn your empty pumpkin into a planter
• If you don’t reuse your pumpkin, put it in your green top bin or home compost.
• Next year try growing your own organic pumpkins in an allotment or a garden!

Costumes
Help stop plastic waste created from costumes.

• Hit the charity shop for pre-loved ghoulish clothes or look for mix-and-match items that can create your perfect costume.
• Make your own - It's loads of fun!