Halloween Facts
This orange fruit, often carved into Jack-o'-lanterns, is a Halloween staple.
What is a pumpkin?
This colored bin is usually used for recycling paper, plastic, and glass.
What is the blue bin?
What is the main goal of California’s SB 1383?
To reduce the amount of organic waste sent to landfills and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
To reduce consumerism how can one make their costume?
By using old costumes or everyday clothes or items to make a new one!
Halloween originated from this ancient Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest season.
What is Samhain?
Reusing this type of bag instead of getting a new one at the store helps reduce plastic waste.
What is a reusable shopping bag?
What types of waste does SB 1383 focus on keeping out of landfills?
Food scraps, yard trimmings, and other organic materials.
After the jack-o’-lanterns go out, don’t toss them in the trash...
turn them into compost or feed them to animals instead!
Americans spend the most money on this type of Halloween item each year—more than costumes or decorations.
What is candy?
These 3 words are the basic principles of reducing waste: Reduce, Reuse, and this.
What is Recycle?
Under SB 1383, what must certain businesses do with extra edible food?
They must donate it to food recovery organizations instead of throwing it away.
How can you make Halloween decorations without buying new plastic ones?
Reuse jars, paper, cans, or other household items to make your own.
In Mexico, this multi-day holiday, often confused with Halloween, honors deceased loved ones with altars, marigolds, and sugar skulls.
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
This common household material, often found in soda cans, is 100% recyclable and can be reused endlessly.
What is aluminum?
What are Californians now required to do with food scraps and yard waste because of SB 1383?
eparate them into the green compost bin instead of the trash.
How can you make trick-or-treating more eco-friendly?
Use a reusable bag, pillowcase, or bucket instead of a plastic bag.
Before pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland originally carved these root vegetables to make Jack-o'-lanterns.
What are turnips?
Turning old T-shirts into tote bags or using glass jars as containers are examples of this type of recycling.
What is Upcycling
Why is reducing organic waste important for the environment under SB 1383?
Because rotting food in landfills releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
What can you do to reduce waste from Halloween candy wrappers?
Collect them and send them to a recycling program or choose candy with minimal packaging.