Dorset Council urges residents to eat pumpkins Picture: Dorset Council
RESIDENTS are encouraged to reduce food waste and eat pumpkins after Halloween, 'as more than 8 million go to landfill every year'.
Dorset Council is urging anyone who picks or buys a pumpkin for Halloween this year to prevent it from going to landfill by eating it in meals and recycling leftovers in a food waste bin.
For those who do not like the taste of pumpkin, the council suggests using a squash instead.
A spokesman for Dorset Council said: "Did you know that over 8m pumpkins go to landfill each year? Save the pumpkins and reduce food waste by using up your leftovers.
"Don't like the taste of pumpkin? A squash can be just as spectacular. Make sure you recycle leftovers in your brown food waste bin."
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