If you don’t have a home compost pile to put your pumpkin post Halloween, you can find a local Pumpkin Smash or pumpkin drop-off event in the area for a fun way to send your Jack-O-Lanterns off sustainably. Lake Placid: Placid Earth Composting at Shipman Youth Center – pumpkins can be placed in a bin outside the shipping container at the Shipman Youth Center (by the basketball courts), Nov 1-4. Saranac Lake: Blue Line Compost at the Common Ground Community Garden (on Old Lake Colby Road) – Nov 5th between 10am and Tupper Lake: The Hub, 320 Park Street – any day, any time.