Though a well-carved pumpkin may be a point of pride to have on your front porch leading up to Halloween, what do you do when it starts to grow mushy and rot?
Smashing your success — literally — and turning it into compost with the Baltimore County Department of Public Works and Transportation may be the answer.
The department is hosting its inaugural “Great Pumpkin Smash” on Nov. 8 at Eastern Regional Park in Middle River, where residents will be able to pick from an assortment of smashing instruments and pound their pumpkins into pieces, to experience “the singular joy of supervised destruction,” along with games, giveaways and snacks, the county said in a news release.
But if pumpkin smashing isn’t for you, the county will also accept drop-offs for collection.
The remains of the pumpkins will be taken to the county’s compost pile at the Eastern Sanitary Landfill in White Marsh to biodegrade into compost that can be used for county landscaping and other projects.
There’s a reason to smash, not trash, your pumpkins — to divert the bulky fruits from taking up space in a standard landfill and reduce the buildup of greenhouse gases in Baltimore County’s only active landfill. Not long after Halloween is the county’s landfill’s busiest time of year — the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, according to Ron Snyder, a spokesperson for the department.
The county’s inaugural pumpkin smash isn’t the only way to dispose of past-prime pumpkins in the Baltimore region. The Maryland Science Center will accept rollable pumpkins for its pumpkin launch tube, which sends them from the rooftop to the patio below.
Fine. Ours will go in the compost.
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