The REALLY Scary Part of October 31

Since I began the zero waste journey, I have come to see everything, really everything, with new eyes. Waste generation seems to be embedded in virtually every phase of daily life, and while sometimes identifying the trouble spots and making changes are easy things to do, often they are at best hard to see, and at worst, seemingly insurmountable.

Halloween is mostly fun! But there are a few stressors, such as all of the artificial dyes and high fructose corn syrup. While those are of concern to me, they aren't my fight.  (By the way, I'm really glad that they are somebody's fight!) What keeps me up at night is thinking about all of those candy wrappers in the landfill.

To that end, I would like to urge everyone to partake in the FREE services of TerraCycle.

TerraCycle is generally speaking a really neat service, and one that we use weekly via our SPUD subscription, as you can see in my earlier post here.  TerraCycle offers a Candy Wrapper Brigade, specifically targeted to reduce waste produced by candy wrappers.



Learn more about the TerraCycle Candy Wrapper Brigade at the TerraCycle Website

And yes, this year, I am going to trick-or-treat with my kids dressed as a landfill. What kind of zero waste mom would I be if I didn't? I promise to take a photo.