{"id":18704,"date":"2026-10-26T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T16:25:26","slug":"waste-free-halloween-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/2026\/10\/26\/waste-free-halloween-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste-Free Halloween Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

A message from our Eco committee….<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We recognise how expensive Halloween costumes can be, particularly if you have several children in your family!\u00a0 If you have any Halloween costumes from previous years which your child no longer fits into, we will gratefully accept them ideally before\u00a0 Thursday 29th<\/sup> October.\u00a0 \u00a0Any donations will be available from our Swap Shop on a first come basis, where parents\/carers can help themselves to at drop off or collection time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, please consider the amount of waste when buying for Halloween treats as so much food is wasted and binned unnecessarily at this time of year. \u00a0Can you think of an alternative treat\u2026spooky pencil, rubber etc? Send in photos of your ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lastly, many of you will buy a pumpkin to carve. Remember you can use all of it instead of throwing it away. You can grow your own pumpkin from it’s seeds, make a bird feeder with them or also eat the pumpkin inner through breads, sponge cakes and even roast it! Here are some ideas on the following links to save wasting the inside\u2026 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reduce-pumpkin-waste-Halloween<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A message from our Eco committee…. We recognise how expensive Halloween costumes can be, particularly if you have several children in your family!\u00a0 If you have any Halloween costumes from previous years which your child no longer fits into, we will gratefully accept them ideally before\u00a0 Thursday 29th October.\u00a0 \u00a0Any donations will be available from … Continue reading Waste-Free Halloween Message<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/18707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}