Welcome to our after-season blog posts! Now that fireworks are done, and over for the season. You might be asking how to dispose of your spent fireworks. Let's go over the proper ways to dispose of spent cakes, or fountains. Fireworks cannot be recycled or composted. If possible, bring the fireworks to your local solid waste center. Make sure to tell the workers at the waste center that you are disposing of fireworks – and whether they are live, spent, or duds. They have diffrent processes to dispose of each of this kind of fireworks in these states. However, you can add the cardboard casing to your compost heap after you've emptied the contents, opened the casing, and removed any remaining particles. Including all of the metals and gunpowder and giving it a good brush, the cardboard can be added to the compost heap. After removing the casing you'll be able to burn the rest including tubes, full fountains, or spent ground items in a firepit (if fireworks are completely spent, make sure they do not have any live or dud parts of your cake, fountain, and or ground items).

Fireworks are not completely compostable due to the heavy metals used to create the colors, but we can reuse a few things. You can use the sticks from rocket fireworks as plant supports, spent cold sparklers can be used as plant ties depending on the flexibility of each one, make sure they have been burnt down to the end to prevent any potential accidents.

Just like a full circle, after getting rid of your fireworks, soon enough it's time to get more.

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