WMAC Wants Your Campaign Signs, Voter Mailers & Fliers for Recycling on Nov. 15

As another political season comes to an end, Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. (WMAC) would like your political signs, collateral materials and direct mailings received throughout the campaign season in exchange for one bag of WM EarthCare™ Homegrown Compost to celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 15.

“We encourage residents to recycle all of the political materials possible,” said Rebecca Jewell, recycling programs manager for WMAC. “And if you bring it to America Recycles Day, not only will you receive a bag of compost, you get to learn more about recycling!”

Free to all visitors, this event will be held at the Davis Street Resource Recovery Complex at 2615 Davis St. in San Leandro, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Activities include:

*Ask experts about the recycling of electronics, household goods and food scraps especially with the holidays around the corner

*Challenge your recycling knowledge in StopWaste’s Ready Set Recycle contest to win a prize

*Tour the state-of-the-art Davis Street single-stream recycling materials recovery facility

*Create a holiday craft or ornament from recycled materials

*Take your picture in a CNG truck powered by garbage

*Engage your child in hands-on sustainability activities making paper, planting seeds and more

*Take the recycling pledge

*Pick up free recycled latex paint (up to five gallons)

*Raffle prizes from Green Toys™

In addition, visitors can drop off hangers and electronics for free recycling. Purses, clothing, shoes, books and magazines, VHS tapes, CDs and DVDs will be accepted for reuse at St. Vincent de Paul. Every day in America, each person, on average, generates 4.5 pounds of trash, 1,642 pounds a year and more than 61,500 tons in a lifetime.

In Alameda County where the average is a bit lower, 3.85 pounds per day, a 2008 study determined 60 percent of the trash was recyclable or compostable. Increasing recycling participation is the goal of America Recycles Day, a national event sponsored by Keep America Beautiful and celebrated annually on Nov. 15.

—Information, flier submitted by Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc.