Over the past year, I have become more interested in a greener lifestyle. This has lead me to begin recycling much more than I ever thought would fit into my schedule and it gives me that same cathartic relief that helping other people does. So since Halloween is almost here, I have decided to set my friends and myself a little challenge that will both save everyone some cash and space in our local landfill. Do you want to know what it is? My challenge is to come up with a costume that meets these criteria:
1) it is made out of stuff from my house, so I don't spend any money
2)half of the components can be recycled when thrown out, so it doesn't take up space in landfills
3)the other half of the components can be reused around my house or saved for next Halloween, so not as much stuff gets thrown out
And on the night of our Halloween Party, amongst our other Halloween traditions, we will have a Green Halloween Costume Contest. The winning prize is a portion of the money that each of us would have normally spent on a costume from the store. This is one of the first things I have ever organized on my own and it will be eco-friendlier than our normal costume choices and it will be great to see what my friends come up with. I can't wait! I will let you know how it goes and let me know what your costume ideas are.
Peace and Love,
AU-Girl
It might be too late to start planning for it now, but maybe for next year you could get a group together and make costumes out of recyclable materials. One of you could go dressed in newspapers, one in plastic bottles, one in aluminum cans... I wouldn't recommend making costumes out of glass though.
You could get a whole group together to do this, and put up fliers in the neighborhoods you'll be in (in grocery stores and gyms and stuff) a week or two before Halloween, saying you'll be "trick or treating" for recyclable materials.
It spreads awareness, you have unique costumes, and you get people to recycle, even if only for one day.
Then the newspaper picks up on it and writes a story on you. Everyone in town reads it. The town feels a sense of pride and starts recycling all the time... then the town next to yours picks up on it... I see this going places. :-)
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One of my friends told me that last year she went as "recycle girl." She made her entire costume out of trash and it was a huge hit.
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