Is the Jack-o-Lantern on your doorstep a little overripe? Some communities want you to compost your moldering pumpkins.
The DeKalb County Health Department's Solid Waste and Recycling Program encourages people to put them out with yard waste and offers three drop-off sites:
• Fire Station #2 - 1154 South 7th Street, DeKalb
• City Garden Plots, west of Fire Station #3 - 950 W. Dresser Road, DeKalb
• The southeast corner of North 7th Street and Oak Street, DeKalb
If you can hang on ‘til Sunday, the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford holds its annual “Smashing Pumpkins” event, where you can launch the squash with a trebuchet. Those pumpkins don't go to waste, though. The scraps are gathered and fed to local livestock.
