Officials announce campaign sign recycling

Campaign signs have popped up around Montgomery County reminding residents to cast their votes on Nov. 6.

After the excitement of Election Day fades, Montgomery County urges its residents to recycle their campaign signs instead of throwing them in the trash.

Recycling campaign signs puts all of the metal, cardboard, and plastic components back into use to make other products. Montgomery County residents may drop off their campaign signs from Nov. 7 to Nov. 13 at participating locations, listed below, during normal operating hours.

This collection program does not seek to take the campaign sign clean up responsibilities away from the campaigns. Instead, the program hopes to connect candidates and residents with drop off points so that signs can be recycled instead of thrown in the trash. Residents may recycle some of the materials independently; cardboard signs may be recycled in curbside programs and plastic bag type signs may be recycled with plastic grocery bags at local retail drop offs. Cardboard and plastic bag signs will be accepted at yard sign drop off locations along with corrugated plastic signs and metal stands, which are more difficult materials to have recycled.

Between Nov. 7 to Nov. 13, candidates and residents can drop off campaign signs at these participating locations during normal operating hours: • Abington Township Highway Yard: 2201 Florey Lane Abington, PA 19038 • Cheltenham Township Public Works Facility: 8101 Old York Road Elkins Park, PA 19027 • Borough of Collegeville Municipal Building: 491 East Main Street Collegeville, PA 19426 • Douglass Township Recycling Center: 108 Municipal Drive Gilbertsville, PA 19525 • Douglass Township Building: 1320 E. Philadelphia Avenue Gilbertsville, PA 19525 • Lower Merion Transfer Station: 1300North Woodbine Avenue Penn Valley, PA 19072 • Lower Salford Township Municipal Building: 379 Main Street Harleysville, PA 19438 • Montgomery County Democratic Committee Headquarters: 21East Airy Street (drop off in parking lot behind building) Norristown, PA 19401 • Montgomery Township Administration Building: 1001 Stump Road Montgomeryville, PA 18936 • Upper Dublin Township Building: 801Loch Alsh Avenue Fort Washington, PA 19034 • Whitemarsh Township Administration Building: 616 West Germantown Pike Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 • Whitpain Township Administration Building: 960 Wentz Road Blue Bell, PA 19422