This blog piece originally appeared on the NYU ECO Reps blog.
Cooking vegetarian meals is good for the environment. Making those recipes zero waste is even better. Sophia Hampton (@FarmtoDorm) is an NYU freshmen doing her best to showcase sustainable eats around the city and sharing recipes from her dorm room. 
Now that Halloween is over you may be wondering what to do with your jack-o’-lantern and all those cute, decorative pumpkins. But before turning to drop your pumpkins in the trash, consider this spooky fact: Food scraps are the largest component of solid waste in our landfills, and when they rot, they emit methane gas, which is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide! Pretty scary, right?
Here are some tips to save your pumpkins from haunting a landfill. Read more
