How to recycle your campaign yard signs
After the Tuesday primary you can do your part to keep plastic signs out of the landfill
Aug. 17, 2024
By Beth Kassab
Winter Park officials are encouraging residents to recycle yard signs after Tuesday’s primary election.
The city, which typically ranks among the highest voter turnout in the region, is a hotbed for campaigning and signs spring up like hydrilla on the chain of lakes shoreline.
After the 2022 election season, the city recycled thousands of signs in partnership with Orlando, Orange County and the League of Women Voters, sparing the landfill from nearly 6 tons of additional bulk, according to a Winter Park news release.
The recycling effort transports the waste to NuCycle Energy, which converts the signs to cubes that can be used to generate energy.
“This recycling initiative will prevent an abundance of yard signs from going to a local landfill,” the release stated. “Most political signs are made from No. 5 plastic (polypropylene), a common plastic found in hundreds of household and commercial products, such as a yogurt container.”
To recycle your signs, drop them off between Wednesday, Aug. 21 at noon and Sunday, Sept. 1 at noon at one of the following locations:
• Cady Way Pool at 2529 Cady Way
• Mead Botanical Garden Community Garden at 1310 S. Denning Drive
• Fire Station 64 at 1439 Howell Branch Road
• For additional locations access cityofwinterpark.org/waste
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The Vanos team has already “collected” all the Jeni Grieger signs in Winter Park. How nice of them to do it prior to Election Day. I have spoken to Susan with code enforcement 3 times. So no it is not code enforcement picking them up. I would not want to win that way. Caught a lady myself on Cady Way. Spoke to Vanos and she said the signs were in the right of way. Well not really for them to decide that is it.
District 5 may have a possible runoff election that would occur in November. In that case, recycling signs for those candidates doesn’t make sense, does it?
Agree. This is for the races decided today. There are a couple that could go into a runoff. I expect the city will promote another recycling effort in November as well.
Wish code enforcement would have a word with sign people that exceed the limits of what’s allowed