Holly Cook
It doesn’t matter whether the thousands of political signs
lining the streets support Barack Obama or John McCain, Bob
Schaffer or Mark Udall, Betsy Markey or Marilyn Musgrave.
When the election is over, most of them end up in a landfill,
but the City of Lone Tree plans to clean up the community, one sign
at a time.
The city is encouraging candidates for political office and
residents to recycle campaign signs. The reason: Recycling paper
materials like campaign signs keeps waste out of landfills and
allows for its reuse.
A city ordinance requires all political signs to be removed no
later than two weeks after an election — Nov. 18.
Recycling campaign signs is one way residents can help Lone Tree
achieve the goal of “living green,” which was conceived earlier
this year by the city’s sustainability coordinator, iLona
Major.
Altogether Recycling, the city’s sole recycling company, has set
up three drop-off locations including one at the City Municipal
Building, 9220 Kimmer Drive in the south parking lot. Signs can be
dropped off between Nov. 4-21.
Altogether Recycling is a single-stream recycling program —
which allows customers to throw all their recyclable materials —
such as newspapers, plastic, magazines, cardboard — into a single
bin to be sorted at the plant.
The plant expected to take in nearly 4,000 tons of plastic,
cardboard, newspaper, office paper and recyclables during October,
according to Brent Hildebrand, Altogether’s vice president of
recycling.
For more information contact the City of Lone Tree at
303-708-1818 or altogetherrecycling.com.
Drop off campaign yard signs until Nov. 21 at:
