Helping Jack rest in peace this Halloween: "If one-quarter of the households in Metro Vancouver carve a Halloween pumpkin this week, that amounts to approximately 200,000 pumpkins.
While they're a happy sight on Halloween night, if they end up in trash cans and dumpsters, they amount to a gargantuan pile of organic material that will rot in landfills and generate methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Consider the math: each pumpkin weighs about five kilograms, so 200,000 pumpkins add up to about 1,000 metric tonnes of organic material. That's about the same weight as 300 elephants. It's a resource that doesn't have to be trashed."
