<body><div>STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WJFW) - Saturday morning at the Stevens Point Brewery beer garden Recycling Connections hosted a Community Pumpkin Smash. Program coordinator, Chris Langenfeld, says the event is all about composting.“To divert a lot of the organics that end up in our landfills, everything people throw away that’s organic especially pumpkins all end up in the landfill,” said Langenfeld.According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about 30% of organics end up in the landfills.“When really it could all be composted, put back into the soil to grow more food,” said Langenfeld.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3muK0F_1GsHxxh900" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3muK0F_1GsHxxh900" width="1920" height="1080" ></figure>Langenfeld says anyone can help by starting small with a composting bin at home.“Anything you can do to divert that from going to the landfill, ideally before you even start so eat the food that’s on your plate, buy the food you know you will eat before it goes bad,” said Langenfeld.To raise local awareness, Langenfeld started the Pumpkin Smash event with tons of pumpkin related activities.“Little bit of therapy smashing pumpkins is a good release too, but we are just having fun we have pumpkin tic tac toe, pumpkin bowling, pumpkins smash, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin,” said Langenfeld.Helping with the event and smashing some pumpkins herself. Addison Buckaloo, a senior at Stevens Point Area Senior High, who volunteers around the community for the Environmental Action Club.“I’m in a lot of volunteering clubs, I think it helps the community and it gives back and I have the time, so I’d rather do it something than sit at home,” said Buckaloo.Buckaloo is also working on setting up a composting system at her school.“Our school has lots of waste, just everyday they get rid of tons of food, so if we could set up a way to compost,” said Buckaloo.Langenfeld and Buckaloo spent the day smashing pumpkins but reminded people about the importance of composting.</div></body>

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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WJFW) - Saturday morning at the Stevens Point Brewery beer garden Recycling Connections hosted a Community Pumpkin Smash. Program coordinator, Chris Langenfeld, says the event is all about composting. “To divert a lot of the organics that end up in our landfills, everything people throw away that’s...

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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WJFW) - Saturday morning at the Stevens Point Brewery beer garden Recycling Connections hosted a Community Pumpkin Smash. Program coor

Stevens Point Community Pumpkin Smash

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