Join us and throw your pumpkins and decorative gourds off a roof and into our Compost Winnipeg truck!
When?
Join us on November 2nd from 10am – 3pm
Where?
CF Polo Park 2nd Level southeast parkade
This event is free to attend!
What to bring?
dress for the weather and bring your Jack-O-Laterns! Make sure any inorganic materials are removed such as candles, nails and any other things you may have decorated your pumpkin with. Paint is alright!
Of the 80,000 tonnes of pumpkins produced in Canada, 66% are sold to consumers; often used for carving and are never eaten. Without intervention, this is an immense amount of organic waste destined for the landfill.
Furthermore, every year Compost Winnipeg has great difficulty accommodating all the pumpkins on our regular collection routes due to the space and volume they take up. This year we are trying this fun and unique approach to the problem while bringing attention to the importance of composting.
What else can I do with my pumpkins?
- Eat them! Bake a pie, make creamy pumpkin pasta, pumpkin cookies…the list goes on!
- Compost them in your backyard compost bin
- Add them to you leaf and year waste for collection
- Bring them to the Pumpkin drop
- Bring them to a community food waste drop off location
Interested in the results from our previous pumpkin drops? Click below to read our 2023 case study
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