Local residents and students have an opportunity to showcase their artistic talent and their support of recycling by participating in the Department of Solid Waste Management’s Recycling Poster Contest. The program, which runs through March 27, asks participants to create artwork that provides education on or promotion of the topic of recycling.
Entries may be in any medium (drawing, painting, digital illustration, etc.). Selected entries will be reproduced as posters, so artwork should be designed with that goal in mind. County staff will select one Grand Prize Winner to receive a $150 award and four K-12 students to each receive $75 awards. Voting on Facebook will select a “Community Choice” winner to receive an additional $100 award. (Funding for contest prizes has been made possible by a grant from Waste Management Recycle America.)
The announcement of contest winners will be made in conjunction with the County’s acknowledgement of “Earth Day,” the week of April 22. Printed posters reproduced from participants’ artwork will be available for distribution at DSWM and community events.
