Halloween is not popular in Chinese culture, but I know in other countries people decorate their houses with pumpkins and scary staff, treat kids with baskets of candy and people dress up in costumes which is used only once in a year. For valuable things, people might want to put them away and use them in the next Halloween. There are things, like candy wrappers, pumpkins and ragged costume that will end in trash bin.
Just in this Halloween, Terracycle posted an article to teach people recycle these waste. Some of its tips are doable. Like throwing unwanted costumes in donation bins, offering plastic/wooden pumpkins on Freecycle.org, reuse candy bucket for other purpose. Other tips, like composting pumpkins/hay, are not easy to implement. Terracycle also accepts candy wrappers that used to be unrecyclable.
In China, we really have the trash problem after many kinds of assemblies and festivals. Food package is the biggest portion of waste. There are trash bins for collecting waste but not sorted. Besides, waste is simply too much to be handled by limited number of bins. If people can be educated, or better instructed, to recycle, by volunteers or this kind of Terracycle tutorial articles, the waste problem should be handled better.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151031/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/151039963/13937/LIFESTYLE
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