Fatal Conveniences™: The Hidden Cost of Halloween

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Darin Olien

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the United States, you’ve most likely celebrated Halloween – you’ve gone trick or treating, you’ve carved a pumpkin, you’ve dressed up in costumes – you’ve done it all. While this holiday can be fun and add some excitement to our lives, it also comes at a cost.

For example, did you know in the United States, most of the 900,000 tons of pumpkin produced annually will be trashed, rather than used as food or composted? This enormous waste adds to the already critical global food waste crisis. Overall, around 1.3 billion tons of global waste are created each year. (World Economic Forum, 2019)

This is just a small glimpse into the amount of waste created from this holiday, let alone the impact it can have on your health. From pumpkins and candy to costumes, decorations, and more, we need to look at the global impact of this holiday from every angle.

That’s why in this episode of Fatal Conveniences™, we’re going to explore the holiday Halloween and how we can start to celebrate in a more sustainable and health-conscious way.

What I discuss:

02:10 - Evaluating the Ecological Footprint of Halloween

07:21 - Exploring the Intersections of Halloween, Environmental Sustainability, and Public Health

23:75 - How Can We Move Towards an Eco-friendly and Health-conscious Halloween Celebration

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Reliable Sources where you can learn more:

Halloween can have spooky environmental consequences
Why Halloween is terrible for the environment
The Environmental impact of Halloween: What the jack-o’-lantern story says about food waste in our society
Halloween candy comes with hidden environmental costs
13 Sustainable Halloween Tips That Are Anything But Boo-Ring
4 Ways To Make Your Halloween As Sustainable As It Is Stylish

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you live in the United States, you've been accustomed to celebrating Halloween.
0:08.8	Where the trick and treat is kind of the thing and then you obviously carve the pumpkin
0:14.0	and you dress it up and you dress up also in costumes.
0:17.6	You know all of the things and of course the candy and everything else and it is a big
0:22.7	holiday here.
0:23.7	For example, in the United States there is 900,000 tons of pumpkin produced annually
0:32.1	and largely will be trashed and not used and just celebrated and in fact on the one hand
0:41.2	it's incredibly polluting but also you're missing out on pumpkin and pumpkin we're going
0:47.2	to talk about how amazing pumpkin is to actually eat.
0:50.7	The enormous waste adds to the already critical obviously global food waste.
0:58.1	Overall about 1.3 billion tons of global waste are created each year.
1:05.2	That's by the world economic forum that came out in 2019.
1:09.6	This is just a small glimpse of the amount of waste created from this holiday.
1:15.9	Let alone the impact that it has on your health for all of the other things.
1:22.3	From pumpkins and candy and pumpkins aren't bad but we throw them away and candy to costumes
1:29.4	to decorations and so much more has led to you know what was once a cool kind of holiday
1:37.8	and we'll get into the history of that and now is actually turns into a fatal convenience.
1:44.2	So that's why in this episode of today's fatal convenience we're going to explore the
1:50.0	holiday Halloween and how we can start to celebrate a more sustainable and healthy holiday.
2:05.8	Welcome to fatal conveniences where we address the things we may be doing in our daily
2:10.6	lives that are actually harming us and in some cases slowly killing us, tap water,
2:17.7	teflon, caffeine, blue light, food additives, you name it, we dive into it.
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