When your kids come down off their Halloween candy rush, you can point out to them how much garbage was generated by their trick-or-treating.
City Hall is trying to keep whatever it can out of the dump, according to communications coordinator Heather Duhn.
“A lot of people will toss away their costumes and you can reuse different parts or maybe reuse the whole costume as a whole,” she says. “Donate it, give it to someone.”
Duhn advises that candy wrappers are not recyclable.
“We do encourage people to put those in their waste bins, not their recyclable bins so that we don’t contaminate the recycling.”
The exception is the cardboard sleeve inside a chocolate bar wrapper.
“As long as it doesn’t have sticky caramel or something like that on it,” Duhn cautions. “If it’s still clean, absolutely it’s recyclable. Any other cardboard for Smarties boxes or anything like that, any cardboard is recyclable as long as it’s clean.”