The Pale Blue Dot will be collecting halloween candy wrappers for recycling (through TerraCycle) starting late October. We are currently raising funds to purchase the TerraCycle Candy & Snack Wrappers
Recycling Box. If you would like to contribute a few dollars to help put waste in it's place, we would deeply appreciate it. With your contributions we will be able to do so much more within our community - and
hopefully even globally!
Thank you so much,
The Pale Blue Dot Team & Mama Earth
WHY SHOULD WE SWITCH FROM WRAPPED CANDY?
Thanks to the (mostly) urban myth of people people poisoning halloween candy , it’s now a given that we
need to pass out the corporate-sanctioned, factory-sealed sweets. While that might mean more parents at ease, it also means big waste. Halloween itself is a massive industry. This infograph gives a look at just how
massive. To summarize, 158 million Americans participate in Halloween, and 95 percent of them buy candy. The amount spent on candy for Halloween alone totals more than $2 billion annually. That’s 600 million
pounds of candy, the weight equal to six Titanic ships. That’s a lot of candy, and a lot of wrappers. Wrappers
that aren’t approved for tossing in the recycling bin. Yet that doesn’t mean Halloween candy wrappers need
to end up in landfills.
Want to read more about how you can make a difference this halloween?
Read our blog post here! 