Recycle Election Campaign Signs In Lower Merion

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA – With the midterm elections over, what are you going to do with those campaign signs in your yard?

Well, you can recycle them free of charge at the Lower Merion Transfer Station Nov. 7 through Nov. 13.

Montgomery County is urging residents to recycle campaign signs instead of throwing them in the trash.

Recycling campaign signs puts the metal, cardboard, and plastic components back in use to make other products.

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 can recycle some 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.

The Lower Merion Transfer Station is located at 1300 North Woodbine Avenue in Penn Valley.

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