BRING ELECTS TO RECYCLE LAWN SIGNS.Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard Hoping for hearty bipartisan support, the folks at BRING Recycling and Lane County Waste Management are launching "Leave No Sign Behind," a campaign to recycle that divisive di·vi·sive adj. Creating dissension or discord. di·vi  sive·ly adv.di·vi election sign karma into something other than landfill-clogging waste. The campaign invites political sign warriors to disarm and discard for the common good, and to demonstrate - with a little humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was - that there is common political ground in recycling and conservation, BRING Director Julie Daniel said. "Your vote need not be 'wasted.' You can still 'salvage something,' ' Daniel said. "You never know. Your sign could be made into a winning one next time." While both sides may not be willing to bury the hatchet to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; - a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace. to make peace or become reconciled. - Dryden. See also: Bury Hatchet just yet, they should be able to agree not to bury their signs in a landfill, Daniel said. "This is a bipartisan opportunity for the community to come together and agree on where both sides can put their signs," Daniel said. "In BRING we trust." The idea, hatched by Daniel, is no joke, even though the staff is chuckling a bit. Operations Manager See datacenter manager. Damien Czech wiped the grin off his face when he realized how big a job this is going to be. "I was OK with this whole deal until I heard there are tens of thousands of them," he said. The signs typically are made of low-density polyethylene low-density polyethylene n. Abbr. LDPE A form of polyethylene having many side branches off the main carbon backbone and a less closely packed structure than that of high-density polyethylene. to be waterproof. However, curbside curb·side n. 1. The side of a pavement or street that is bordered by a curb. 2. A sidewalk. adj. Located, operating, or occurring at or along the sidewalk or curb: recycling programs don't accept the material, Czech said. To be recycled in "Leave No Sign Behind," signs must be free of staples, tape and stakes. BRING found a buyer at a price that will make the campaign a break-even task - which is appropriate for one of the nation's oldest nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. recyclers, Daniel said. "The public can be assured BRING knows just where to put those old political signs," Daniel said. RECYCLING PLASTIC CAMPAIGN SIGNS Where: Glenwood Central Receiving Station, 3100 E. 17th Ave. When: Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Nov. 20; closed Thursday for Veterans Day Details: Signs must be free of staples, tape, and wood or metal stakes More info: Telephone: 746-3023 On the Web:www.bringrecycling.org |
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