Nevada’s K-12 students invited to participate in Nevada Recycles poster competition

In celebration of America Recycles Day on Nov. 15, Nevada’s Okay-12 college students are invited to showcase their creativity and dedication to defending our planet by taking part within the Nevada Division of Environmental Safety’s Nevada Recycles Poster Contest. The competition is open now via Oct. 3, 2022.

To take part, college students might want to create a poster that highlights this 12 months’s theme: “Refuse It or Reuse It.” The poster ought to promote methods to scale back waste by refusing to take one thing you don’t want or reusing objects that you simply would possibly in any other case toss within the trash. To submit a poster, go right here.

Contest Guidelines:

The competition is open to all Nevada college students in grades Okay-12

The competition might be cut up into 4 classes for judging:
— Kindergarten via 2nd grade
— third grade via fifth grade
— sixth grade via eighth grade
— ninth grade via twelfth grade
Three winners from every class might be chosen.

Every winner will obtain sustainable items, corresponding to reusable lunch kits, Rocketbook reusable notepads, and compost bins.

Successful posters might be featured on the Nevada Recycles web site and Nevada Division of Conservation and Pure Sources social media channels (@NevDCNR), and also will have an opportunity to be featured on the Carson Metropolis Library and at RTC bus station in downtown Reno in the course of the month of November.

All entries should be submitted by Oct. 13, 2022 at 5:00pm. To view earlier poster winners go right here. To study extra about this 12 months’s contest, go right here.