Halloweeen, Zero waste
Trying to be zero waste almost everyday is hard especially on holidays. This was one of the hardest times to be zero waste. Halloween. My mom really wanted to give out candy or something because we have some kids on our block and the houses were decorated. I started thinking of sustainable candy options. The first thing you can do is milk duds, junior mints or paper packaged M&M’s. They all come in paper packaging, plus are yummy, I think. Then I thought we could do homemade cookies. But the problem is, unless you know everybody in your neighborhood that will be trick or treating. Then I thought, seed packets! They are packaged and they allow kids to grow things and they won’t get damaged if they are thrown in the bag of candy. But when we started looking for them it was too late. We went to the dollar store, called walmart, went to target,walgreens and looked on amazon. On Amazon they would come tomorrow and today is the 30th, so we didn’t want to take the chance. If you have time and you want to get seed packets, they actually have halloween themed seed packets especially for handing out! Here's the link
If you want to get candy besides milk duds and junior mints or want more candy you could get foil wrapped candy because it is recyclable! Such as: Ferro Rocher, Hersheys kisses, Googly eye chocolate, gold reese’s peanut butter cups, carmel, chocolate coins, etc!
Now we read an article before going shopping, that you could give out pumpkin shaped erasers. Thats is why we went to target! They had 24 for $1 but they were tinier than I thought they would be and they were in plastic, but much less. They had them on amazon but it would've come too late.
Here is the link: Here's the one that we would've purchased if we had more time
Now what I wanted to do was hand out fruit, but my mom said no. Now if your mom lets you ;) you could do apples, bananas, oranges, squash, potatoes, pumpkins, etc. Any fruit that is cheap at the store or if you have extra fruit from a garden you could give that too!
If you want to hand out gum that is environmentally friendly you could give out Glee Gum! Glee gum is made out of tree sap and comes in paper packaging and id packaged in a solar powered facility. It is always MUCH better for you, why? Unlike others gums it isn’t made out of plastic or other yucky material (like tree sap, ha ha ha, very funny) and it has no added preservatives or sweeteners!
I got that idea here
I got the eraser idea from here
If you have always liked raisins and since you eat the leftover candy you could give out Sunmaid packets!
These are the chocolate yogurt ones
If they're covered in chocolate they're candy, right?
The last thing that I can think of is going to your local thrift store and looking what fun “thing” they have a lot of for cheap. At our thrift store they had sunglasses, hats, disney pins (the kind that are like $10 and you can trade at Disneyworld for 20 cents). If you can think of things that I have not already listed please, pretty please email me at: zerowasteteeneditor@gmail.com and it may be featured in next year's Halloween post!
If you want to get candy besides milk duds and junior mints or want more candy you could get foil wrapped candy because it is recyclable! Such as: Ferro Rocher, Hersheys kisses, Googly eye chocolate, gold reese’s peanut butter cups, carmel, chocolate coins, etc!
Now we read an article before going shopping, that you could give out pumpkin shaped erasers. Thats is why we went to target! They had 24 for $1 but they were tinier than I thought they would be and they were in plastic, but much less. They had them on amazon but it would've come too late.
Here is the link: Here's the one that we would've purchased if we had more time
Now what I wanted to do was hand out fruit, but my mom said no. Now if your mom lets you ;) you could do apples, bananas, oranges, squash, potatoes, pumpkins, etc. Any fruit that is cheap at the store or if you have extra fruit from a garden you could give that too!
If you want to hand out gum that is environmentally friendly you could give out Glee Gum! Glee gum is made out of tree sap and comes in paper packaging and id packaged in a solar powered facility. It is always MUCH better for you, why? Unlike others gums it isn’t made out of plastic or other yucky material (like tree sap, ha ha ha, very funny) and it has no added preservatives or sweeteners!
I got that idea here
I got the eraser idea from here
If you have always liked raisins and since you eat the leftover candy you could give out Sunmaid packets!
These are the chocolate yogurt ones
If they're covered in chocolate they're candy, right?
The last thing that I can think of is going to your local thrift store and looking what fun “thing” they have a lot of for cheap. At our thrift store they had sunglasses, hats, disney pins (the kind that are like $10 and you can trade at Disneyworld for 20 cents). If you can think of things that I have not already listed please, pretty please email me at: zerowasteteeneditor@gmail.com and it may be featured in next year's Halloween post!
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