First, thanks to all who requested signs from the shop, displaying them prominently in your yards, and those who placed them in the public right-of-way around the area on behalf of candidates. It’s important to remove all signs as soon as reasonable and Shaler Ordinance 225-67 D requires they be removed within seven days of the election; this year that’s by Nov 11th. Since many hands make light work … let’s SHOW people how sign removal is done!
Disposing of signs
- Return your signs
to 133 East Undercliff St, 15223, last house on the left. Just lean them up against the guard rail on our property side and we’ll take it from there. If candidates want them back, we’ll return them.
- Recycle them yourself
Remove the plastic parts of the sign and either reuse (as awkward garbage bags, make pinwheels?, etc), recycle at a local supermarket (GE, Target, etc), or throw them away. (Yes fellow environmentalists, it feels rough to say, but the plastic industry lied to us all for decades about plastic being easy to recycle. These bags have little value, are not easy to recycle, and often end up in landfills anyway. Do what you can, but don’t stress about it.)
Recycle the steel legs – Fitzsimmons Metal Recycling on Butler Plank Road accepts all metals for recycling. After they close at 5pm, you can still drop off old metal beside the steel barrels. (Do not put anything in the large dumpsters; that’s for Fitzsimmons’ use only.)
- (The Township often also advertises a place to drop signs off, but I haven’t seen that yet this year. If they post that, then it’s another option.)
Want to help candidates more? Be a hero and pick up Democratic signs!
- Take a litle time this week and drive around and collect any Democratic candidate signs you see that are IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY – that generally means “any place you see a sign on the side of the road that isn’t a private lawn.”
- You may dispose of those you collect in the same ways as above.
