MINUTE RIDE ON 99. RANDY, BRIAN, THANKS SO MUCH. NEW THIS MORNING, MILLIONS OF KIDS WILL BE OUT TRICK OR TREATING AND GATHERING CANDY. IN FACT, AROUND 600 MILLION POUNDS OF CANDY IS PURCHASED FOR THE ...
According to industry data, $2.6 billion will be spent on candy in 2019, and Americans purchase nearly 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween. But a new initiative is helping keep some of those ...
Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, a handful of companies are trying ...
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. WITH HALLOWEEN A FEW DAYS AWAY, YOU MAY BE WONDERING WHAT’S AN ECO FRIENDLY WAY TO GET RID OF ALL THOSE CANDY WRAPPERS? FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST BROOKE SILVER JOINS US ...
Each year, more than 600 million pounds of candy is purchased for Halloween in the United States. The vast majority of the wrappers that candy comes in end up in landfills due to an inability by most ...
Trick-or-treating is over and the post-Halloween litter season has arrived. For months, parents will be finding candy wrappers shoved under their kids’ beds, crushed in the bottoms of backpacks and ...
Mars -- the maker of Snickers and M&Ms -- has distributed 17,400 candy waste-collection bags to U.S. consumers. (The Columbian files) Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s ...
When all the tricking and treating is said and done, the candy wrappers remain. Hundreds of millions of them in the United States each year — following Halloween alone. The plastic wrappers can’t be ...