Sainsbury’s has launched pumpkin recycling points in ten of its stores and used stickers to encourage consumers to compost their used pumpkins.
Pumpkins dropped off at one of ten recycling points will join the retailer’s other food waste used for anaerobic digestion, via the retailer’s waste partners Biffa.
While this year, for the first time, all Sainsbury’s pumpkins will display information about how customers can recycle them locally through government-funded scheme Recycle Now.
'There’s nothing more gruesome than a pumpkin past its best – so we want to make sure that once the spooky festivities are over we’re helping customers to get rid of their pumpkins in the right way,' said head of sustainability, Paul Crewe.
The UK’s third largest retailer said it expects to sell just over one million pumpkins this week, and said that its unsold pumpkins will be donated or sent to zoos.
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