But one council candidate hopes local body election candidate signs are not going to be consigned to the back of the garage or simply thrown away.
Chanel Gardner, who is standing in the Dunedin constituency for the Otago Regional Council, said she hoped candidates would make sure they either kept the signs for the next election or found a use for them.
Some areas of Dunedin have been covered in election signs of all shapes and sizes. Beside State Highway 88 in Maia and at the intersection of SH1 and Barnes Ave in Caversham, signs are everywhere.
But with 16 mayoral candidates and 54 people running for a council seat in Dunedin, candidates have to get their name out there.
Ms Gardner said it would be a waste if people threw away signs and did not put them to another use. A first-time candidate, she was aware signs were often kept to be rolled out for another year.
She had reached out to other candidates to recycle their signs.
Nurseries liked the signs for planting and they could also be used for beehives. Schools and community groups could also use them, she said.
Ms Gardner had 20 signs out around a very large Dunedin constituency and she was aiming to recycle them all.
A few of them had been blown away in the wind, she said.
