MANHEIM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) - No matter which candidates you were pulling for in Tuesday's Election, political yard signs weren't going to stay out forever.

Manheim Township has a collection bin at its municipal building for those yard signs.

"We thought it'd be a great way to collect those signs and recycle them," Michelle Hooper, Manheim Township's recycling coordinator said. "The plastic for the signs and the metal in the legs for the signs so they wouldn't go into a landfill."

People with yard signs can take them to the township's municipal building to drop them off. Nobody from the township will come to homes to collect them.

"That's a great way to keep things out of the landfill," Manheim Township resident Cheryl Weber said. "It certainly adds up. One person doesn't feel like they're doing a lot. But if everybody does it, then that's a great thing."

Weber has a sign in her lawn. She was prepared to put it out for trash night.

"I don't know what we were going to do with our sign," Weber said. "Probably just throw it away."

After hearing of the collection bin, Weber's willing to go a different route.

"[I would] love for someone to take it and recycle it," she said.

Hooper says the township sent out an email to all of the residents on the email list. Not all residents are on the list, including Weber.

Different municipalities were contacted by Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Agency (LCSWMA) asking for help recycling.

"This is a way that if people see them and they know whether it's on their property or they see them in a right away out on the street and they know they can bring them here, hopefully people will pick them up and bring them here so we get them in the right hands," Hooper said.

Manheim Township is collecting political yard signs now through Wednesday, Nov. 13. The municipal building is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 am until 4:30 pm.

The address is 1840 Municipal Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601.