City Of Batavia: Pumpkin & Squash Recycling Event

Press release from the City of Batavia:

October 29, 2021

Kane County, in conjunction with Pushing the Envelope Farm and Northern Illinois Food Bank, is offering a free pumpkin recycling event in Geneva on Saturday, November 6, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, to help you reduce your seasonal holiday waste.  See the event flyer here.  Jack O'Lanterns, pumpkins, and decorative squashes are highly compostable and it is a real shame to just send them to a landfill, when the nutrients they contain could instead be returned to soil that will grow more healthy food!  

WHEN:  Saturday, November 6, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 12 noonWHERE:  Pushing the Envelope Farm at 1700 Averill Road in GenevaACCEPTED:  Pumpkins (carved or whole), decorative squashes and gourds, corn stalks, hay bales, or any other organic materials used as fall décorNOT ACCEPTED:  No Jack O'Lanterns with any of the following items in or on them:  candles, yarn hair, stickers, glitter, googly eyes, plastic ears, plastic of any kind, or excessive amounts of paint

Because these materials will be composted straight into the soil of the farm, it is very important to keep it contaminant-free just like food scrap composting.  In other words, only the squashes, pumpkins, and gourds themselves can be accepted at this event.  

Spread the word!  Tell your neighbors and friends to utilize this great service to get all those pumpkins composted instad of landfilled!  

This press release was produced by the City of Batavia. The views expressed here are the author’s own.