Come Wednesday, campaign yard signs for this election cycle won’t be relevant anymore. But the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District says not to toss them in the trash can.

The WLSSD Materials Recovery Center on Ridgeview Road off of Rice Lake Road in Duluth can recycle them.

Environmental Program Coordinator Emma Pardini says most yard signs are made of corrugated plastic.

“It’s a great surface to print on, and you can cover them with any information you want,” Pardini said. “But they don’t belong in your recycling bin at home because they can’t be sorted very easily through traditional recycling processes. But it’s a really valuable plastic resource.”

First, separate the metal stakes from the plastic sign. WLSSD will send them to Replay Workshop, a Proctor-based recycler.

“They do some really cool stuff. They take all kinds of plastics that don’t typically belong in your recycling bin,” Pardini said.

They can make them into wearable art like jewelry, materials for crafters, and game pieces for board games.