Halloween is full of costumes, candy, and pumpkins, but it can also create a lot of extra waste. Test your spooky smarts with our Trash or Treat Recycling Quiz to see if you know what belongs in your recycling cart… and what’s destined for the landfill! 👻♻️
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Are the items listed below Trash or Treat:
- Candy Wrappers
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Trick! Candy wrappers are made of mixed materials and can’t be recycled. Toss them in the trash.
- Pumpkins
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Treat! Pumpkins can’t go in your recycling cart, but you can compost them or place them with yard waste (check local rules).
- Cardboard Treat Boxes
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Treat! Flatten them and put them in your recycling cart.
- Plastic Pumpkin Candy Buckets
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Trash! These are reusable, not recyclable. Hold onto them for next year!
- Aluminum Foil from Food or Costumes
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Treat—if clean! Rinse off food residue and recycle it. Otherwise, it belongs in the trash.
- Glow Sticks
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Trash! Glow sticks contain chemicals and can’t be recycled. Dispose of them in the trash.
- Plastic Beverage Bottles from Halloween Parties
- 🎃 Trash or Treat?
- Answer: Treat! Empty, rinse, and recycle them.
This Halloween, don’t let your recycling cart turn into a haunted house of contamination. Stick to the treats (and keep the tricks out of your bin)!
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