By Rose Morelli

I know, I’m a buzzkill - but my disdain for tatty Halloween rubbish goes beyond my own misery. Amid a looming environmental crisis, we need to ask: are tonnes of Hallo-waste really necessary to keep kids happy this October?

Halloween has always been a time to throw some whimsy on our fears. Come 2025, and we’ve all progressed past supernatural fears into real-world threats: the fall of democracy, the depletion of drinkable water, or whichever teenager on a bike will next try to snatch my phone.

But as someone who is genuinely scared by the threat of climate change - an animatronic witch leaking battery acid into a landfill is not the sort of whimsy I’m looking for this October.

I must have missed the moment a few pumpkins stopped sufficing as........

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