How to Recycle or Reuse Old Campaign Signs
This lens offers some practical and some creative suggestions for ways of recycling campaign signs, reusing or re-purposing them.
Be sure to leave your ideas on your favorite use for old campaign signs.
Image Source: Laura Hertzfeld. Obama Signs. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a sign.
12 Ways to Recycle or Reuse a Campaign Sign
- 1. Disassemble Your Campaign Signs
- 2. Plant them in a Hope Garden
- 3. Recycle Those Old Campaign Signs
- 4. Turn them into Park Benches and other Projects
- 5. Turn them into New Art for a Cause
- 6. Use the Campaign Signs for Target Practice
- 7. Help a Bird Sanctuary or Animal Shelter
- 8. Keep them for Sentimental Purposes
- 9. Turn it into a Free Hugs Sign
- 10. Replace it with an Imagine Peace Sign from CafePress
- 11. Sell Your Campaign Signs on eBay
- 12. Hold on to them to Reuse in 2012
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Recycling the signs instead of manufacturing all that paper uses 60% less energy and helps reduces global warming pollution.
What should we do with Old Campaign Signs?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byRecycle or Reuse them.
BigGirlBlue says:
One of the most common uses for the signs around here is attaching a new sign over them for "yard sale".
Posted November 10, 2008
Frankster says:
Absolutely recycle or reuse them. Local organizations that hold fundrasiers, spay/neuter clinics, etc. can repaint and reuse them over and over to announce their events.
Posted November 08, 2008
Trash them.
What can I do with Old Campaign Signs?
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Disassembling a Campaign Sign
Image Source: Robyn Gallagher. Recycle election hoarding too? Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
1. Disassemble Your Campaign Signs
Kern county offers following tips on how people can recycle their unwanted campaign signs.
Check with your local county to see what procedures they want you to follow and what you can recycle.
- Broken down corrugated plastic, cardboard signs and metal stakes can be placed into your curbside recycling blue cart.
- Campaign signs must be free of staples, metal or wood posts and tape.
- Small wood stakes can be recycled with greenwaste in counties that have green carts.
- Drop off small or large corrugated plastic and cardboard signs at the various Recycling Center that take plastic and cardboard.
- Wood signs and wood frame/stakes can be recycled at centers that take wood.
2. Plant them in a Hope Garden
Image Source: KitAy. Obama. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
3. Recycle Those Old Campaign Signs
Check with your own local recycling centers to see what they will recycle from the old campaign signs.
- State GOP makes a deal to recycle campaign signs -- baltimoresun.com
- The Maryland Republican Party has announced a solution for getting rid of those campaign signs that tend to linger on lawns after election season, and it is an environmentally friendly proposal at that.
- Recycle Campaign Signs In Oregon - Your Vote News Story - KPTV Portland
- Many different centers in Oregon are taking back campaign signs for free. The campaign signs must be free of staples, metal or wood posts and tape.
- County Asking Residents To Recycle Campaign Signs
- Kern County Waste Management Department is asking people to recycle their campaign signs so they don't end up in landfills.
Find a Recycling Center with Earth911
At the Earth911 website you can search for local recycling centers. Simply enter in what you want to recycle and your zip code and Earth911 will give you a list of your local recycling places.Earth911 is the largest online clearinghouse of recycling information for the United States and Canada. It is is the premier environmental resource for source reduction, reuse, and recycling information.
They are part of the nation's official environmental information network-providing access to data compiled by thousands of local government, non-profit and commercial coordinators for more than 74,000 locations for recycling, household hazardous waste disposal, reuse, and more.
Turn them into a Park Bench
Image Source: Mark Hillary. Recycled Bench. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
4. Turn them into Park Benches and other Projects
- Groups in Brevard County recycle campaign signs | MiamiHerald.com
- What people in Brevard County, Florida are turning their campaign signs into benches.
- Campaign signs get new life after election
- The campaigns are over and now Brevard County Officials want to make sure all those signs and banners don't end up in landfills.
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Re-purpose the Campaign Sign for an Art Contest
I really liked the idea of reusing campaign signs for art projects.
Image Source: Takomabibelot. "Learn Green, Teach Green" Yard Sign. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
5. Turn them into New Art for a Cause
Blank signs and art supplies were provided to the first 100 participants. The event, designed to promote the arts and advocacy by encouraging people to create "new" campaign slogans about social issues and causes they care about.
- CCAN - Takoma Park Public Art Project
- A unique art project reusing old campaign signs.
- Takoma Park's Green Young Artists
- More about the Takoma Park event from the Washington Post.
Use the Signs for Target Practice
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Image Source: Jennifer Jordan. No Target Shooting - Seward Hyw, Alaska. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
6. Use the Campaign Signs for Target Practice
Jail inmates take the large 4x4 foot signs, remove the wood posts and cut the signs in half. Then the officers use the cardboard for target practice.
This is the third time the sheriff's department has recycled campaign signs.
- Recycling campaign signs at the firing range
- What some of the folks in Savannah, Georgia are doing with their old campaign signs.
Reusing Campaign Signs for Birds
Depending on which signs you give them, this might be a fitting way to recycle signs from the party you didn't support.
Image Source: Last Chance Forever, the Birds of Prey Conservancy, a falcon sitting over a corex mat.
7. Help a Bird Sanctuary or Animal Shelter
Coroplast is lightweight, flexible, easily cut and formed, cleanable, water resistant and, most importantly, safe to use around the birds.
At LCF, we use this versatile material in many ways. Small signs are used to modify standard transport kennels so that the large metal mesh that can catch and damage feathers won't create a hazard for birds in transit.
Larger signs make easy-to-clean floor mats for perching birds. Rather than using newspaper once, a sheet of coroplast can be cleaned and reused for a year or more until it becomes brittle.
- Save Your Campaign Signs for Last Chance Forever
- Last Chance Forever, the Birds of Prey Conservancy, would love to have those old signs for dozens of uses at our rehabilitation center. The bigger the signs, the better.
Save them for Sentimental Reasons
Image Source: Robyn. Hope-ium. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
Save the Campaign Signs as Historical Mementos
8. Keep them for Sentimental Purposes
"I'm going to wipe it down and save it as a momento. Because this is kind of historic what happened. So that's what I plan to do with mine."
- Saving Signs for a Memory Book
- Kern County Waste Management Department is asking people to recycle their campaign signs so they don't end up in landfills.
- Obama signs treasure, not trash
- Signs touting presidential candidates typically are treasured symbols of free speech before an election and piled on the nearest trash heap after an election from Your Daily Camera Online.
9. Turn it into a Free Hugs Sign
Join the Free Hugs Campaign and recycle your old campaign sign into a "Free Hugs" sign.
Image Source: Greg Dunham. Free Hugs. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.
More about the Free Hug Campaign
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Free Hugs Campaign - The Many Benefits of Hug Therapy
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The Free Hugs Campaign began as one person's attempt to make a difference and reach out to others to brighten their lives. Juan Mann describes his inspiration as follows: Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting the...
An Imagine Peace Yard Sign
10. Replace it with an Imagine Peace Sign from CafePress
Imagine Peace Yard Sign
Price: 17.99
11. Sell Your Campaign Signs on eBay
Sell Your Obama Signs on eBay
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Sell Your McCain Signs on eBay
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12. Hold on to them to Reuse in 2012
People might want to keep them in their garage until 2012.
- Blue state goes green, recycles campaign signs
- Top Stories: Blue state goes green, recycles campaign signs | signs, waste, county, election, haulers, political, people, palin, recyclable, mccain
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My Other Posts about Ways to Recycle Campaign Lawn Signs
- 12 Ways to Recycle or Reuse a Campaign Sign
- Inspired by post election energy and a post on How to Recycle Your Election Yard Signs by Planet Green here is a post on the My Green Doc Blog about the Ways to Recycle Campaign Signs.
- What can you do with an Old Campaign Sign?
- This was the question that I set out to answer in the Ways to Recycle Campaign Signs lens from the Comfortdoc on Squidoo Blog.
More Articles on Recycling Campaign Signs
- How to Recycle Your Election Yard Signs : Planet Green
- In some places, it is the responsibility of the campaigns to reclaim the yard signs and dispose of them.
- Recycling site accepts pols' signs
- Information on Recycling Campaign signs from Azcentral.com.
- Residents encouraged to recycle campaign signs
- With the 2008 General Election coming to a close, residents are encouraged to recycle their signs with the City of Loveland's Solid Waste Division from The Coloradoan.
- Recycle those political signs
- Recycle the ones that are made of paperboard, says Kevin Chafin, resource director of Bridging the Gap from Kansas City.
- Everywhere, the signs
- More good suggestions on What to do with your campaign litter from the Gristmill: The environmental news blog.
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- In school for the last five or six years, I made a handful of cardboard chairs for various studio projects, design competitions.
- Even Campaign Signs Can Go Green
- An Arlington company is giving North Texans a way to recycle their thousands of political signs -- for free.
- 10 things to do with campaign lawn signs
- More suggestions for things to do with campaign lawn signs from 30 Accomplishments while I'm 30 years old.
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Will you be recycling or reusing your campaign signs?
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Another excellent lens, Kirsti. Thank you for submitting it to the Building Ordinary group, where it is a most welcome addition.
Posted February 15, 2009
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Wonderful lens. Welcome to Living the Green Organic Lifestyle.
Posted November 19, 2008
naturegirl7 wrote...
Great ideas. I like the using them for art one. We also use the wire bases of some in the garden for mini trellises. Welcome to the Naturally Native Squids group. Don't forget to add your lens link to the appropriate plexo and vote for it.
Posted November 09, 2008
CherylK wrote...
Great ideas here! It's amazing what you can recycle if you just put on your thinking cap and every little thing helps, that's for sure. I'm absolutely going to lensroll this.
Posted November 09, 2008
Tipi wrote...
I did have a sign. But, it's a good idea to reuse them. I like the Free Hugs idea. Know where I can get a free hug??? What could I reuse to make a sign? 5*'s
Posted November 09, 2008
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