Halloween is my favorite holiday, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. Unfortunately, the spooky season is replete with disposable decorations, detritus, and wrappings. Cheap costumes and individually wrapped candies make mountains of plastic waste that will haunt landfills for all eternity. But there’s no reason to be scared off of sustainability. From reducing the trash left behind to not creating trash in the first place, here are a bunch of ways to make your Halloween more environmentally friendly!

Pumpkins

Of the two billion pounds of pumpkins grown for Halloween every year, about 1.3 billion pounds will be tossed in the trash. How to stop that? Not buying a pumpkin in the first place is a good start.