Now that the election is over, it’s time to get rid of all those campaign signs.
Metropolitan Environmental Trust Director Michael Patton said don’t put them in your recycling cart, though.
"The metal wires really mess up the automated sorting equipment, so clearly, do not put them in the blue bins," Patton said. "You can bring them to any of the M.e.t. centers, we're open seven days a week. We recycle the paper, the plastic and the metal."
There are 12 recycling centers in the Tulsa area. Patton said they’ll accept all the signs they can get.
"We encourage people to clean up the town," Patton said. "There's a lot of campaign signs this time, and, you know, they're ugly. We call them 'litter on a stick'."
This is the third election the M.e.t. is recycling campaign signs from. Patton expects they’ll collect at least as many as they did during the last election, when they recycled around 7,000 signs.
