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For the second straight year, Alpine Waste & Recycling™ is encouraging candidates of local elections, both successful and unsuccessful, to gather their plastic yard signs and recycle them. Signs can be dropped off at Alpine’s Altogether Recycling plant at 645 W. 53rd Place in Denver.
Coraplast yard signs – made of corrugated plastic – can be easily recycled, said Brent Hildebrand, vice president of Altogether Recycling. The presidential election and the unusually hard-fought local campaigns have resulted in higher numbers of campaign signs in the Denver area this year, with as many as 117,000 signs headed for storage, landfill or, better yet, recycling.
“The most efficient way to recycle political yard signs is for politicians to store them and reuse them in their next campaign,” Hildebrand said. “If that’s not an option, we hope candidates will bring them to us and encourage their supporters to do so as well.”
Altogether Recycling has established drop-off points in Arvada and Lone Tree. Politicians and residents can drop off their signs in Arvada at Creative Advertising & Printing, 5840 Old Wadsworth Blvd., and at a site supported by the City of Lone Tree at 9220 Kimmer Drive. The drop-off sites will be collecting election signs Nov. 4-21.
“The City of Lone Tree is dedicated to providing recycling opportunities for its residents,” said iLona Major, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Lone Tree, “and we are pleased to participate in Altogether’s election sign recycling project.”
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