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Contributed by: Marc Lumpkin on 11/9/2007

Altogether Recycling offers drop-off location for recycling unwanted campaign materials

Election day is over for 2007, but what do you do with those unwanted election signs? Altogether Recycling has the solution: recycle! Altogether Recycling has established a drop-off location in Arvada to encourage political candidates and supporters of local elections, both successful and unsuccessful, to gather their plastic yard signs and drop them off at Creative Advertising & Printing at 5840 Old Wadsworth Blvd.

Coraplast yard signs -- made of corrugated plastic -- can be easily recycled, said Brent Hildebrand, vice president of Altogether Recycling of Denver. He estimates there were at least 85,000 political signs posted in the Denver metro area this election season.

"The best way to recycle those signs is for the politicians to use them again in the next campaign," Hildebrand said. "Otherwise, we hope they will bring them to us for recycling. Those signs should not end up in a landfill."

Altogether Recycling will take the discarded signs to its recycling plant at 645 W. 53rd Place in Denver. Altogether Recycling welcomes inquiries from other centers that wish to serve as drop-off points for this recycling campaign.

"I hope to re-use a majority of my signs," said first-time City Council winner Mark McGoff of Arvada, "but a lot of them I will put in a recycling bin, and I encourage my colleagues to do the same. I appreciate Altogether Recycling's efforts to participate in this important environmental cause. As a newly elected member of the Arvada City Council, I plan to emphasize the benefits of sustainability -- and there's no better time than right now to send a message to the community."

For information, visit www.altogetherrecycling.com.

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