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Fourteen Oklahoma students will be highlighted in 2021 for their anti-littering art. Each student used their artistic skills to highlight the consequences of littering by entering an original piece of art in the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s annual Trash Poster Contest. From cats to alpacas to dragons, there were no limits on the creativity shown by kindergarten through 12th-grade students who paired anti-litter puns and slogans with their art.
More than 6,100 posters were entered this year for the 2021 calendar and ODOT and its partners recently honored the 14 winners with several prizes. Each received a certificate, a tote-bag, a T-shirt with their design and a cash prize, funded through donations. Additionally, the students’ sponsoring teachers were awarded a voucher for classroom art supplies and a voucher for a two-night stay at select Oklahoma state parks.
“We had so many great poster entries that illustrate possible solutions to litter abatement and environmental concerns,” said Melody Johnson, ODOT beautification coordinator. “County and state judges were very impressed with all the awesome artwork, creativity and forethought put into every poster entered. We also want to thank participating teachers who are including this important public education effort in their curriculum.”
The 2021 Trash Poster calendar will be available for free while supplies last and will be distributed to state agencies, businesses and schools statewide in December. The Promotional Poster of the Year will be printed in large format for the public to use in displays, newsletters and for promotional use to help spread the word that litter is harmful to our state and needs to stop. Another winning poster will be featured on the 2021 entry form.
The department spends nearly $6 million in taxpayer dollars annually to combat litter along state highways and interstates while the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority spends $1.5 million annually to clean along turnpikes. Those totals do not include the hundreds of volunteer hours put toward fighting litter across the state through events like ODOT’s annual TRASH-OFF and the national Great American Cleanup, sponsored by Keep Oklahoma Beautiful.
The contest sponsors include Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Oklahoma’s Credit Union, OG&E, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department-Oklahoma State Parks, Keep Oklahoma Beautiful, Ardmore Beautification Council, Oklahoma Rural Water Association, Solid Waste Institute of Northeast Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma City Beautiful, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office.
Next year’s contest begins Dec.1, 2020, and has a Jan. 31, 2021, deadline to enter posters to local DEQ offices. For more information about the contest and entry rules, go online to www.odot.org/tpc or contact the ODOT Beautification Office at 405-521-2557 or email beautification@ODOT.org.
The winning posters may be viewed online at www.odot.org/tpc
The state winners are:
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade:
3rd – 5th Grade:
6th – 8th Grade:
9th – 12th Grade:
PROMOTIONAL POSTER OF THE YEAR
ENTRY FORM POSTER FOR 2021
Kylie Castonguay, an eighth-grader from Lone Grove, won the ODOT Trash Poster Contest Promotional Poster of the year. Castonguay’s poster will be promoted throughout the state in 2021.
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Holly Cole, a 10th-grader from Midwest City, will have her poster published on the 2021 ODOT Trash Poster Contest entry form.
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2020-10-26
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