2020 Recycling Video/Poster Contest “Then, Now, and in the Future”

K-12 students from the United States and Canada are invited to participate in a recycling contest by creating a video or a poster that imagines what recycling will look like in 50, 75, or even 100 years from now by designing a solution to a current problem. You could win a trip to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ 2020 Annual Convention and Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada!. Register to participate or learn more here. All entries must be submitted by December 20, 2019.

Your challenge: Create a video OR a poster that imagines what recycling will look like in 50, 75, or even 100 years from now by designing a solution to a current problem in recycling today. 

For Grades K-4:
Your solution should:

• Identify a specific problem or a related set of problems in recycling.
• Show how people have tried to solve the problem in the past.
• Imagine and design a new solution!

For Grades 5-12:

Your solution should:

• Identify a specific problem or a related set of problems in recycling.
• Describe how the technology, the process, or the recycling material has evolved over time. Do your research!
• Imagine and design a new solution and show how it integrates lessons learned from the past, whether failures or successes.