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They are renewable and compostable —both things are often not possible to achieve in other activities.

Those not used can actually be used for baking pumpkin pies —though probably slightly different from regular pie pumpkins, but good enough.

So all things considered, this should not even register vs things like other festivals where there are tons of trash left over.

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> They are renewable and compostable —both things are often not possible to achieve in other activities.

I was thinking and wondering if all those 1000s of acres could be used to grow something else, which people could eat and not throw away. :)

But you make a great point. It is better that we carve pumpkins, which are compostable, than use some kind of non-compostable stuff.

People have more than enough food. Where there is a famine you find a government behind it.

Compostable but are they all composted? Where I live, yes; but in other areas they go inside a plastic bag to a landfill where the bag won’t break down for many many years.

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