by Carl BR Johnson
May 19, 2013
Photo by Carl BR Johnson — Arthur Hadland plans to reuse his campaign signs for the next election.
Thousands of plastic, metal and wooden signs dot the Peace Region, asking voters to consider candidates in an election that has already passed.
Now the campaigns are over, the question of what to do with those signs must be
answered.
Most of the eight Peace Region candidates made over 500 signs, with the exception of Tyrel Pohl, who had only 25.
Mike Bernier, the recent victor in Tuesday’s election for Peace River South MLA, said he hasn’t forgotten about the 700 signs he and his campaign team put up around the region.
“We drove around all day yesterday looking for our election signs,” said Bernier.
“Not only did we look around the roads but in farmers’ fields to hopefully try and find all the ones that might have blown away.”
Bernier said the he’s going to make every effort to dispose of all of his election signs in an environmentally conscious manner.
“I have all of my signs in a big pile here and I’m going up to Busy Bee Signs to see if they can be re-used or recycled,” he said.
Dawson Creek’s Busy Bee Signs & Graphics said they are looking into recycling the “coroplast” election signs – just like a plastic bottle or tin might be recycled, “in the
future.”
“Currently we have no way of recycling the coroplast signs but right now, we make an effort to re-use them for other customers. Those customers who might not mind the logos of the various political parties being on the backs of the signs are being targeted for the re-use of the election signs,” said Bruce Endicott, general manager at Busy Bee Signs.
Coroplast is a brand name of corrugated plastic that was the dominant material widely used in the making of the election signage that has been seen all over the region.
Kurt Peats said that he is working to take down his 1000 “pesky” signs, but asks local residents, “If I do miss one or two would you please take them down and dispose of them?”
Tyrel Pohl, the Independent candidate in Peace South had the simplest situation regarding his election signage.
“I only had 25 signs in total and I’ve collected them already – which turned out to be 18 signs that actually survived. I’m going to keep them all and use them again in the next election,” said Pohl.
Up in Fort St. John, Pat Pimm, who held onto his seat as Liberal MLA for Peace River North, said that his camp is also working on a way to recycle the 735 signs that his campaign used for election advertising.
“I haven’t got the details yet on how we’re going to recycle our election signs but we absolutely want to recycle them,” said Pimm.
However, Arthur Hadland, the Independent, has a DIY approach to recycling his 740 signs.
When asked what he would do with them, he said, “There is another election is another four years.”
A section within Fort St. John’s sign bylaw states that, “an election sign may be removed within five days of the conclusion of the election to which it relates.”
Kevin Henderson, the City of Dawson Creek’s director of infrastructure & sustainable development, cited the B.C. Elections Act, stating that signage is required to be taken down the day after the most recent election.
“The City of Dawson Creek bylaws don’t have any specific timeline for election signs,” said Henderson.
“But we do have a bylaw for temporary signage that says they must be removed within seven days after their lifetime has concluded.”
Henderson said that he doesn’t expect to encounter any issues in Dawson regarding leftover election signs.
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