All Ridgefield students in grades kindergarten through 12 can participate in the seventh annual Housatonic Resource Recovery Administration (HRRA) Recycling Poster Contest.
This year’s poster theme is “How to Recycle Organics” (food scraps).
Official entry blanks will be available through most of the public schools or the Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield. Entry blanks for Ridgefield students will also be available on HRRA.org.
So far Ridgefield High School, East Ridge and Scotts Ridge Middle Schools, Veterans Park, Farmingville, and Barlow Mountain Elementary Schools as well as the Boys & Girls Club are participating.
All entries must be turned in to either a participating school, the club or town hall by Feb. 21. Judging of Ridgefield entries by grade will take place before the regional deadline of March 7, (all first place winners’ posters advance to the regional judging).
There are cash prizes and a chance to have winning work exhibited on a billboard. Winners are also honored at various ceremonies.
Major sponsors of the contest are All American Waste, Union Savings Bank and Winters Bros. Waste Systems, along with the HRRA Regional Recycling Task Force.
Further information on the contest, visit HRRA.org or contact Ellen Rossini, 2014 Poster Contest coordinator, at highway@ridgefieldct.org.