INDIANAPOLIS — Now that Election Day has come and gone, and the campaigning is over, what do you do with those campaign signs?
Experts say the best thing you can do is find a way to repurpose the signs-or donate them to a local artist who might have a plan for them.
But one thing you absolutely shouldn't do is put them out for recycling.
"That is wish recycling, so people see that plastic yard sign and they're like, 'wow I really want to do the right thing, I want this to be recyclable.' So they might be tempted to put it in the recycling bin, and that's the wrong approach," Allyson Mitchel with the Indiana Recycling Coalition said. "People should recognize that that is number three plastic, polyvinyl chloride. It is an auto recyclable type of plastic, and it is not a form that could be recycled."
Mitchel said recycling things like those yard signs actually does more harm than good and can come back full circle and make things more expensive for the consumer.
For a complete list of materials that are safe to recycle, click here.