The Pumpkin Smash is an annual effort by communities to divert pumpkins from landfills by providing locations for residents to drop-off jack-o-lanterns to be composted. It is held each year the Saturday after Halloween.

SCARCE and the cities of Wheaton and Elmhurst hosted the first pumpkin collections in 2014, diverting 9.31 tons of pumpkins from landfills and helping to improve composting laws in Illinois. By 2016 the Pumpkin Smash grew to over 31 sites across the state. So far this year, many locations have signed up. Just enter your zip code and a short radius to find the closest Pumpkin Smash near you, or sign up to start your own Pumpkin Smash.

Go here: https://www.scarce.org/pumpkins/