1. Shift Up Your Packaging and Crockery
Of course, the best solution for catering a big eco-friendly Halloween party would be to eat from china plates, but with sugar-fuelled kids running around and causing havoc, that is just not practical. Think of the breakages! But that doesn’t mean that you have to drain the earth’s resources or load up your local landfill, though.
Our hot food trays are ideal for serving up your Halloween treats for the kids without worrying about them dropping and smashing a plate. They are also recyclable, biodegradable and compostable too! This means that you can rest easy about the environmental impact of your celebrations.
We also have kraft paper soup containers made from sustainable recycled materials to hold those warming autumnal broths and a range of recyclable hot and cold drink cups and glasses to keep everyone hydrated and caffeinated.
2. Use Sustainable Decorations
You will notice the shops filled with swathes of plastic decorations in the run up to the big spooky day, but these disposable items rarely last to be used another day and end up being thrown in the bin. This is obviously a long way away from contributing towards an eco-friendly Halloween, but there is another way.
Why buy a plastic pumpkin decoration when you can use a real one instead? You get the spooky Jack O’Lantern look in your decor, but with the benefit of entertaining the kids scooping out the flesh and you get to eat it too! Have an adult carve the scary face and use a battery powered tea light to illuminate your pumpkin, so you don’t have to worry about naked flames.
Another upcycling project you can take on for a sustainable Halloween is to create your decorations using junk modelling. Any yoghurt pots, cardboard or boxes you were going to throw out can be repurposed into decorative bats, spiders, witches and more.
3. Swap Costumes
Another potential waste problem around Halloween comes from the costumes children wear. If you get a kid a zombie costume for one year, they will wear it at Halloween and then there are likely to be very few opportunities to wear it again until the next year, when they have likely grown out of it!
To give a costume a longer life span, you could set up a costume swap with other local parents. Once your child has worn an item, they can pass it to a younger child and, that way, the same costumes remain in circulation rather than being forgotten or dumped. You buy fewer new costumes, slowing the demand for new plastic products too.
4. Recycle Your Batteries
There is a shocking statistic that 99% of batteries are not properly recycled in this country. As Halloween is the time of year for flashing lights and noisy toys, that means there are a lot of batteries being run down.
When they go to landfill, they can cause all manner of damage to the environment, so it is important that we make sure they are correctly disposed of. You will find battery recycling points in libraries, supermarkets and other public areas so make sure that after the festivities are over, you make the effort to take them to the right place
5. Use an Eco-Friendly Halloween Bag
A very simple trick to create an eco-friendly Halloween is to use a canvas bag or even a pillowcase to store all of the trick or treat goodies. Rather than grabbing a plastic carrier, make sure you have something reusable at hand for the most important business of the day – collecting sweets!
You can even decorate the bag with the kids to make it super scary. Stitching on black cats, pumpkins and monsters personalises the bag and you can even store it away after the big day to use again another year.
Ready for Your Eco-Friendly Halloween?
Now the party preparations are in full swing for the spookiest day of the year, have you got hold of the food trays and cups that you need? Make sure you browse our range to get hold of the best supply of sustainable and eco-friendly packaging to serve your food and drinks in. With so much scariness going on, you don’t need to be concerned about the horror of adding piles more to the local landfill.
