Around 18,000 tonnes of edible pumpkin are sent to landfill each year, discarded after Halloween. Environmental charity Hubbub is running the #PumpkinRescue in response

‘Pumpkins are for more than just carving, they taste gourd-eous too!’ That’s the message from the team at environmental charity Hubbub who are running their annual #PumpkinRescue campaign again this year.

Since its launch in Oxford in 2014, Pumpkin Rescue has delivered 199 events and its workshops have been attended by 12,200 people. The team estimates that 17,000 pumpkins have been diverted from landfill as a result.