If you feel like the holidays have become one massive plastic-fest, you are not alone. Cheap plastic decorations have eroded what the holidays are all about and left us with an ecological headache that could take centuries to resolve.

From the plastic pumpkin decor, to the candy wrappers haphazardly thrown on the ground, to the amount of costumes that get tossed into the garbage afterwards; our environment takes a huge hit. It is time to think about our earth! Here is how you can help and be environmentally conscious this Halloween:

Make your own pumpkin decoration with a milk jug

Instead of buying more plastic, recycle what you have. Use this time as an opportunity to get crafty with your friends, family or kids! Use items you have around the house and get creative!

Give Out Environmentally-Friendly Candy

The bags sold at stores tend to end up in the oceans and the pumpkins that everyone loves to stuff with candy probably will not break down for at least 300 years.

When purchasing candy this year to give out to all the ghouls and goblins that appear at your door step, think about the material of packaging it has. There are a lot of eco-friendly wrapping paper in grocery stores, health-food stores and even some farmers markets.

Trick-Or-Treat with Reusable Bags

Instead of buying another hard-plastic pumpkin basket to hold your abundance of candy in, use a tote bag, a reusable shopping bag or even a pillow case! With the pillow case you can draw on it with glow-in-the-dark markers to really get in the spooky spirit.

Donate Your Costume

Recent research has indicated that one of the largest sources of microscopic plastic in our oceans is the clothing we do. Do not toss your costume into the garbage only for it to go and sit in a landfill for years. Donate your costume so another person or child can enjoy Halloween in style!

The good news, however, is that you can also have an earth-Friendly Halloween with recycling milk jugs, plastic packaging bags, plastic decorations made into Wood Plastic Composite material.

Wood Plastic Composite is a Earth-Friendly sustainable material because it is made recycled wood and plastic and additives in different proportions. The use of wood plastic composites prevents the deforestation, saves forest and petroleum resources, promote plastic recycling and protect the environment.

Hosung (Shanghai) WPC Co., Ltd. structural recycled plastic lumber products are manufactured using recycled HDPE plastic like milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles. Each year, we save thousands of pounds of plastic from entering our earth oceans, landfills and waterways.

HOSUNG is proud to be an environmentally friendly company. Recycle your Halloween milk jugs, plastic packaging bags and plastic decorations! Plastic waste that pollutes the environment can end up becoming eco-friendly Wood Plastic Composite products.

Halloween is the unofficial start of the holiday season, so it is the perfect time for launching a year-long (and hopefully life-long) dedication to celebrating in an eco-friendly manner.  Get moving, no more waiting!