Compost BG to help dispose of pumpkins for 3rd year

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – With Halloween right around the corner, most people are thinking about what they want to do with their pumpkins after the holiday. One local organization wants to take that stress away.

Compost Bowling Green is going to take any pumpkins that they get and bring them to their site off Glen Lily Road to safely dispose of them.

For their third year of composting pumpkins, they’ll be set up at the Community Farmers Market on Nashville Road a full week, from Nov. 2 through Nov. 9.

Owner Charlie O’Connell says there’s actually a major benefit to giving them pumpkins instead of sending them to a landfill.

“Any organic matter in the landfill, it’s going to decompose and produce greenhouse gases… on top of that, they just don’t need to go there. Here, we can take them, incorporate them into our compost pile and make a soil amendment that can go right back out to Bowling Green and Warren County,” he says.

O’Connell also says they will try to categorize some of the better pumpkins and give those to Glean Kentucky or local farms to help feed the community in the process.