LA HCR70

Urges the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, Louisiana Environmental Education Commission, Louisiana Municipal Association, and Police Jury Association to work with local governments to establish and promote recycling events for used campaign signs and coordinate with waste management services for pickup and processing.

References a successful 2019 pilot project in Lafayette by Tre' Bishop that partnered with local government, Republic Services, and LA Scrap Metal to collect and recycle campaign signs, later expanding to multiple Acadiana-region cities in 2020.

Notes that over 28,000 people qualified to run for public office in Louisiana over the preceding ten years, generating large volumes of corrugated plastic and metal campaign signs that are not practicable to recycle through regular household waste collection.

Requests the secretary of state include information on the removal, reuse, and recycling of campaign signs in qualifying packets distributed to candidates statewide.

Existing law (R.S. 30:2544) already requires candidates to remove campaign signs from public rights-of-way within 30 days of a general election and directs local authorities to make reasonable recycling efforts for litter collected from litter-free zones.