Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill after spooky season is over! Help next year’s pumpkins grow by composting your old jack-o’-lanterns, gourds, and cornstalks.
Now through Tuesday, December 2, faculty, staff, and students living off-campus can drop off pumpkins, gourds, and cornstalks in the labeled roll-off dumpster in the Uniprint parking lot located at 2500 Kenny Road. The site is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Only pumpkins, gourds, and cornstalks belong in the roll-off dumpster. Other food scraps should be deposited in the green compost carts located nearby.
Whole and carved pumpkins are accepted. Please remove any candles or lights from inside of the jack-o’-lantern.
Students living on campus may drop off pumpkins or gourds in the compost containers located at their residence hall.
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins end up in landfills across the nation each year. Buckeyes can help pumpkins return nutrients to the soil instead of producing methane in a landfill by composting this autumn!
If you have any questions, email recycle@osu.edu.