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Holloween gets trashy: Keep Carrollton Beautiful hosts the Recycle Halloween Costume Contest
By Marthe Stinton, mstinton@starlocalnews.com
Keep Carrollton Beautiful is trying something new by using something old.
Confused? Don't be, because the group is about to show residents how to take recyclables and repurpose them into affordable, crafty Halloween costumes.
On Oct. 27, Keep Carrollton Beautiful will host the Recycle Halloween Costume Contest in Historic Downtown Carrollton. The event is free and will feature awards for the best adult costume, best children's costume, most creative costume, best use of recycled materials, and scariest costume best accessory.
Keep Carrollton Beautiful is hoping for about 50 participants but would welcome many more. The deadline to register is Oct. 26. and Lisa Stavinoha, member of the Keep Carrollton Beautiful board and environmental chairman for the C-FBISD PTA, said participants can use almost anything.
"Tire tubes, toilet paper holders, chip bags, old cardboard boxes, aluminum cans, even old computer wires," said Lisa Stavinoha. "I am hosting the Trash to Treasure Fashion Show in April for all students in CFBISD who choose to participate and wanted to do something similar out in the community as well. Since fall was a perfect time and Halloween was right there, it became the perfect time to host a recyclable Halloween costume contest."
All prizes are great gift cards donated by some of the awesome shops in Historic Downtown Carrollton; Ten of Arts, Junk and Jewels, Babes, Silver Star Mercantile, Blooms Candy and Soda Pop Shop and Agave Azul have all donated gift cards.
The average American produces about 4.4 pounds of trash daily, according to the EPA. The U.S. Department of Labor states that a family of four, for one year, would produce about 6,400 pounds of trash, 60 percent of which could be recycled.
Stavinoha said the event is to get people thinking about trash in a different way and to get them to think outside the box and repurpose items instead of just throwing them away.
Cardboard egg cartons make great plant starters and cute art projects for toddlers, Stavinoha said. Toilet paper rolls can be used to make a decorative mirror for any room and 2-liter bottles can be used for a terrarium.
Apart from the Recyclable Halloween Costume Contest, Keep Carrollton Beautiful will be challenging Carrollton residents to bring their plastic bags to Texas Recycles Day on Nov. 10. For every 50 bags residents bring to recycle, they will get a reusable grocery bag.
The schools will begin collecting on Oct. 29 and stop on Nov. 14.
"Last year, I challenged the schools to Pluck 1000 plastic bags and they plucked 48,000 bags," Stavinoha said. "This year I am challenging them to Pluck 50,000 bags."
For those looking for recyclable costume ideas, Stavinoha said to search online where a plethora of ideas can be found.
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