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PureCycle, League of Women Voters Partner in Nonpartisan Effort to Clean Up and Recycle Campaign Signs
Over 15,000 election signs will be collected and recycled in Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties diverting 10,000 pounds of plastic waste from Florida
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[{"type":"text","content":"Over 15,000 election signs will be collected and recycled in Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties diverting 10,000 pounds of plastic waste from Florida landfills and waterways\nORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCT) is announcing today its plans to work with the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties to collect and recycle over 15,000 political signs in Central Florida after the November 8th midterm elections. This joint effort is expected to divert up to 10,000 pounds of plastic waste from Florida landfills, waterways, and green spaces, protecting the local environment and making Florida's 2022 election cycle more sustainable.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nStarting on November 9th and continuing throughout the month, volunteers from three local Florida LWV chapters will collect plastic campaign signs from Democratic and Republican Party headquarters as well as citizen drop-off sites. PureCycle will then recycle and transform the signs into a sustainable resin that can be continuously repurposed and reused.\nPureCycle CEO, Dustin Olson, said, \"Whichever side of the political spectrum you're on, we can all agree that removing and recycling unwanted plastic trash from our local communities is a net positive for Florida residents and for the environment. We are thrilled to be working with The League of Women Voters in Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties to keep our neighborhoods clean and waste-free post-election. With PureCycle's groundbreaking recycling technology, we can turn this year's campaign sign for a local Republican candidate into a 2024 sign for a Democratic candidate, and vice versa. It's a true bipartisan moment for our nation.\"\nRepresentatives from the Orange, Seminole and Volusia County League of Women Voters added, \"Plastics in our environment is almost always bad news. Not this time. This project gives us all a real, tangible way to help clean up the mess. Drop your signs off at a collection site and the League of Women Voters will take it from there. We're thrilled to be working with our government partners and PureCycle to make it happen!\"\nMost political signs are made from No. 5 plastic (polypropylene), a common plastic found in hundreds of household and commercial products. Most polypropylene goes unrecycled due to the diffi...