Rethink Waste announces 2024 Trash to Art contest

Published on March 11, 2024

To celebrate Earth Month, RethinkWaste is excited to announce its annual Trash to Art contest, which is open to students in grades three-five within its service area. The contest encourages children to collect recyclable or trash materials and create a piece of art in any medium.

Contest guidelines:

• Participants must be third to fifth grade students in the RethinkWaste service area.
• The art piece must be composed of 90% from recyclable or trash materials collected from home, school or everyday life. No compost or hazardous waste, such as batteries.
• All art mediums are accepted, such as sculptures, collages and murals.
• All artwork should not be bigger than three feet by three feet.
• Artwork must meet one of the following criteria: can stand alone and is able to be moved by an individual.

This year’s contest is open to both individual students and classes. A field trip to a local museum or art studio will be awarded to the class category winner and a class pizza party to the second class category winner. Individual winners will choose from a selection of fun local activities or sustainable arts and crafts kits. Winning art pieces will be announced Friday, April 5, and all winners will be recognized publicly at the RethinkWaste Earth Day Event Saturday, April 27, at the Shoreway Environmental Center.

Submissions are due by Friday, March 29, at 4 p.m. to the Shoreway Environmental Center located at 333 Shoreway Road, San Carlos CA 94070 (open Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.). Please park in the visitors’ parking lot (Gate 2) and bring your artwork upstairs to the “Rethinker Room.”

For more information, visit rethinkwaste.org/trashtoart, email tours@rethinkwaste.org or call 650-802-3508.