Today is Election Day! Visit the Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Elections for voting details, and to view election returns.
Recycling
your sample ballot, newsprint voting guides, and brochures and
postcards you might have received from candidates and organizations is
simple: just add them to your other paper recyclables.
However, what about any lawn signs you might have? Here is a little guide to disposing of those:
Wire sign frames and holders
Bring sign frames and holders to the scrap metal drop-off area at the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station. Sorry, we do not accept wire items in our curbside blue bin recycling program.
Corrugated plastic signs
We do not accept corrugated
plastic signs in our recycling programs. Perhaps you might be able to
reuse them. For example, I recently used a scrap piece of corrugated
plastic to make a rigid bottom for a cloth shopping bag. If you do not
have other uses for this sign material, please put it into your regular
trash.
Film plastic signs
Film plastic
signs look a lot like plastic bags. However, please do not add them to
plastic bag recycling bins, as they may be made of different resins than
bags! As with rigid corrugated plastic signs, please reuse film
plastic signs, or place them into your regular household trash.
Cardboard signs
Please add cardboard signs without a plastic coating to your other paper recyclables. However, if the signs are coated with plastic film, please place them into your regular trash.
What other election support materials would you like to dispose? Let us know, and we'll share the answers back here.
