Students at McMath secondary went to extreme lengths this week to recycle their Halloween pumpkins. Not content with simply putting the rotting fruit into their parents' green composting cans, the students - with the help of volunteer engineers - shot the pumpkins high through the sky toward food scrap containers from a giant catapult. The stunt was to support McMath's green team's in-school and in-community food composting efforts and also in recognition that all Richmond high schools work at keeping food out of the landfill. The pumpkins, most of which smashed on the ground, ultimately landed in the Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre composting site. Richmond News photographer Chung Chow's pictures show the engineers loading the catapult, left, tightening the spring, centre, and achieving lift off, far right.

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