Announcing 'Recycle: the Art Competition.'
The Contest has Ended
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Explore your creativity—express your imagination and expose your talents. The theme is RECYCLE and how you communicate it is up to you! Enter the GSUSA Recycle art competition today!
Twelve Girl Scout winners, selected by a panel of professionals in the art and environmental industries (see instructions below for more details), will have their artwork reproduced in the 2008 GSUSA fund-raising calendar, and will have their art shown in a gallery exhibition in New York City. The artwork may also be reproduced on T-shirts, retail merchandise or marketing materials.
Talking Trash
Each American produces about 4.4 pounds of waste daily, which means that over the course of a year, the United States produces some 229 million tons of municipal waste.
Three Rs – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
You reduce when you buy stuff with less packaging or make cool picture frames out of CD cases. You reuse when you fix a rip in your jean bag instead of throwing it out, or you donate a birthday gift to a woman's shelter because it doesn't fit you. You recycle when you provide used stuff to make new products. That can mean park benches or carpets made out of some plastic bottles.
Why are the three Rs important?
Because without them, all the stuff you throw away turns into a boomerang. How's that? It comes right back at you, that's how. Those dead batteries from your MP3 player or cell phone, bottles of dried up nail polish, your old computer, all go to landfills – space that could have been developed into a beautiful park or homes or anything but stinky, toxic trash! Plus, the chemicals in that stuff can leak out of the landfill into oceans, rivers and groundwater—water you use for swimming, canoeing, and even drinking.
Find a means of recycling, reusing or reducing that could make a difference and express it in a way that means something to you!
Please see the instructions in either Word or PDF (18KB) format for more details on how the winning art will be selected.
Since 1912, Girl Scouts has been an advocate of environmental stewardship. Through the Girl Scout Law, Girls Scouts are taught to "use resources wisely" and to "make the world a better place." These values are re-enforced by programs and opportunities offered through GSUSA's Elliott Wildlife Values Project (EWVP) and close partnerships developed with councils nationwide.
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