The Village of Bartlett will be hosting its annual pumpkin composting event with this year’s Pumpkin Smash! SCARCE, a nonprofit organization committed to keeping “stuff” out of the landfill by reusing or recycling, first brought this event to DuPage County in 2014! 

Since 2014 the Pumpkin Smash has:
~ Composted more than 1418.29 tons of pumpkins
~ Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1045.35 tons of CO2e
~ Diverted 304,533.93 gallons of water from landfills

Residents can bring their pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns for composting in order to return nutrients back to the soil and lower methane gas production in landfills. Regular or decorated pumpkins are allowed, but please remove yarn, stickers or any plastic items before composting.

Visit the SCARCE website, www.scarce.org/pumpkins/ for more information or call the village at 630-837-0800.