Nearly 50 Million Halloween-themed Items Thrown Away Every Year After Being Used Just Once - Mirro...

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Out of these, 39% do so because they believe the items are cheap and flimsy. Almost one in five polled - 17% - even admitted to throwing away items because they're too scary to simply have lying around the house, despite there being nothing wrong with them.

⁘With all of these items contributing to an already stretched landfill, we need to be reusing what we have and think second hand first at all times of the year."

Halloween spending in the UK has quadrupled over the last decade since 2013 to an estimated £1 billion. The biggest purchases are bags of plastic-wrapped sweets, with 85% of people buying these, followed by decorations, 74% and costumes, 70%.