Fall Holidays
Simpler Entertaining
Whether it’s a large or small gathering, entertaining can add serious stress to celebrations. We’re bombarded with images of extravagant holiday decorations and elaborate recipes. With standards like that, a simple party can become a monstrous task. Take a look at our Simpler Entertaining Guide to help ease the party planning, the Earth-friendly way.
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Stats & Facts
- Americans spend over $10 billion annually on Halloween costumes, candy, and decorations. For that amount of money you could buy your own private island and have money left over.
- On average, Americans buy $3.2 billion worth of Halloween costumes every year.
- 83% of Halloween costume materials are oil-based plastics. That equates to some 2,000 tons of plastic, much of which is disposed of after the costume is worn only one or two times.
- A single trick-or-treater generates one pound of trash on Halloween.
- It’s estimated that 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins are thrown out after Halloween every year.
- ReFed estimates that 305 million pounds of food from Thanksgiving dinner will be thrown out this year. Producing this food generates more than 1.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is the same as driving 169,000 cars for a full year. More than 1 billion gallons of water go into producing this amount of food; the same amount of water used by everyone in New York City for three and a half months.