42% of people in the UK buy pumpkins each year, but they don't always end up in a happy home...
After carving out the edible part of the pumpkin:
33% cook it
19% add it to the compost heap
20% put it in food waste collection
25% throw it in their general waste bin.
That's a whopping 18,000 tonnes of pumpkin thrown away each year.
The same as 360 million portions of pumpkin pie.
