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Well, It is officially November 10th and the elections are Over!  We’ll have a new President in the White House come January and there are changes being made all over the country.  Drive down any residential street, however, and there’s one change that still needs to be made:  What to do with all of those Obama/McCain, Governor, Senator and Local Office signs and placards up in all of our yards?!

The truth is, on my street at least, there are Hundreds of them left, and there is nothing being done with them yet.  Why throw them away?  Why send them to take up further space in our already over-burdened landfills, why not do something else, why not Recycle?  Some people campaigning might have used paper-placards, those are easy enough to deal with and recycle, but what about the plastic ones?  According to an article I just read, the first step, and probably easiest, would be to call the local office of whomever the sign is for…many of them have staffers on hand that are already out collecting and recycling them.  If not, you could reuse the sign, simply turn the plastic sleeve inside out and use it for your next garage sale or event you need to advertise for.

The article also mentioned, you could reuse the wire as rebar in your next concrete project, turn the sign into an oil drip catcher to put underneath your car.  The bottom line is, there are an Infinite number of ways to make sure that the plastic sign you believed so much in, doesn’t end up as extra waste in our landfills.  Get creative, after all, wouldn’t your candidate have wanted that?!

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