Transition Town Mt Hawthorn (TTMH) started delivering its bright green No Junk Mail signs to Leederville last weekend, after last year delivering the signs across Mt Hawthorn using an environmental grant from the City of Vincent to reduce paper waste.
Lisa Mazzella from the group said the project started small and grew after other residents asked for signs.
“We started small, with signs delivered to a few streets in my suburbs of Mt Hawthorn in early 2014,” Ms Mazzella said.
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TTMH volunteer Gabby Pracilio said almost 3000 signs were printed after receiving the grant in 2014 for Mt Hawthorn and 2015 for Leederville.
However, 50 signs across at least eight streets in Mt Hawthorn were stolen, leaving the volunteers baffled.
“Last week eight streets were targeted ranging from a few to almost all signs missing,” Gabby Pracilio said.
“Since then we have been notified of more signs going missing,” she said.
Ms Pracilio said volunteers would be dropping the signs into letterboxes in Leederville without an existing no junk mail sign and would replace stolen signs.
“From little things big things grow, so we hope other locals are keen to keep this initiative growing into their suburb,” Ms Pracilio said.
Anyone with details about the sign thief is asked to contact police on 131 444 or email the group about missing signs at ttmthawthorn@ gmail.com.