UK expected to waste terrifying number of Halloween pumpkins

Only third who buy squash to create lanterns will cook leftover flesh, finds survey

The UK will bin 8m pumpkins after Halloween, the equivalent of enough pumpkin pie to feed the entire nation, research has found.

Almost three-fifths (58%) of consumers buy pumpkins to hollow out and carve, of whom only a third bother to cook the leftover but edible innards, according to the annual #PumpkinRescue campaign.