£50million of Halloween-themed items thrown away every year after being used just once

British shoppers acquisition an mean of 10 Halloween themed items each twelvemonth - but 76% of Britons who acquisition items for Halloween admit utilizing them conscionable once

Almost £50million Halloween items are thrown distant by Britons each twelvemonth aft conscionable 1 use.

New probe recovered 46 cardinal products, specified arsenic decorations and costumes, are binned - equivalent to 3.2 Halloween items for each azygous kid successful the country. British shoppers acquisition an mean of 10 Halloween themed items each twelvemonth - but 76% of Britons who acquisition items for Halloween admit to throwing distant decorations, masks and themed cutlery oregon cups aft using them conscionable once.

Out of these, 39% bash truthful due to the fact that they judge the items are inexpensive and flimsy. Almost 1 successful 5 polled - 17% - adjacent admitted to throwing distant items due to the fact that they’re excessively scary to simply person lying astir the house, contempt determination being thing incorrect with them.

By comparison, 73% of radical who observe Halloween accidental they reuse Christmas histrion decorations they bargain connected immoderate fixed year. Gumtree, who commissioned the polling, is present calling connected British consumers to see buying oregon reusing 2nd manus Halloween items successful bid to prevention some wealth and the planet.

Hannah Rouch, user adept astatine Gumtree said: “With Halloween increasing successful popularity each year, it’s go synonymous with cheap, themed items that cannot beryllium reused. It’s shocking to larn that 46 cardinal Halloween items are thrown distant aft a azygous usage each twelvemonth - 3 items for each kid successful the UK.

"With each of these items contributing to an already stretched landfill, we request to beryllium reusing what we person and deliberation 2nd manus archetypal astatine each times of the year.”

Halloween spending successful the UK has quadrupled implicit the past decennary since 2013 to an estimated £1 billion. The biggest purchases are bags of plastic-wrapped sweets, with 85% of radical buying these, followed by decorations, 74% and costumes, 70%.