Sheridan Fall Pumpkin Festival To Help Promote Recycling

The Halloween fun is over, but instead of throwing your pumpkin in the trash, the city of Sheridan has ways to recycle them, and one of those ways could be amusing.

This Saturday (November 5th) is the 2nd Annual Sheridan Fall Pumpkin Festival, from 10am until 2pm at Blacktooth Park.

Those who bring pumpkins to the event can simply recycle them, launch them out of a slingshot at a target, or smash them to a pulp with a baseball bat.

A number of pumpkin games and activities will be available for visitors to engage in as well.

Seliena Parker is the Sheridan City Recycling and Solid Waste Coordinator.

She says last year’s inaugural was a ‘smashing’ success, so to speak, and it helped promote recycling.

“We had almost 450 people attend, which is great because we wound up receiving a little over 12,000 pounds of pumpkin to recycle and so everything went well. I think this year, we just wanted to go a little bit bigger and just get more people to come out and recycle their pumpkins rather than dispose of them in their trash cans, so that they can ultimately be added with our compost.”

Parker says if you don’t want to wait until Saturday to recycle your pumpkin, recycle containers have been set up this week at the drop sites on Brundage Lane and on Highland Avenue, just north of 5th Street.