Participate in a national recycling video and poster contest sponsored by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and JASON Learning, and you could win a trip to ISRI’s 2020 Annual Convention and Exposition to be held April 27-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada!
One video and one poster will be selected as a finalist from each of the three grade bands: K – 4 | 5 – 8 | 9 – 12.
Recycling has been a part of human history for centuries. From Paul Revere owning a scrap metal yard to families during the great depression reusing flour sacks to make new clothes, recycling has transformed and been a part of our lives throughout time.
Fast forward to today — Today’s recycling industry involves sophisticated machinery to process and sort different type of recycling materials needed for manufacturing. Recycling has evolved and adapted over the last 200 years to keep up with the different materials entering the recycling stream. Last year, the US recovered and processed approximately 138 million tons of scrap metal, paper, plastics, electronics, textiles, glass and rubber, saving a lot of energy, reducing greenhouse house emissions, and saving natural resources.
Yet, we still face significant challenges and there is still room for improvement.
Competition Process
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!
- 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.
Judging Criteria
Entries will be judged by a committee of representatives from ISRI. Judges will evaluate each entry on how well the entry’s message connects to people’s everyday lives, creativity and originality, quality, and the overall impression of the entry. Finalists videos and posters will be featured on the JASON and ISRI websites. Up to two grand-prize winners will be selected. Grand prize winners will receive a trip for one team representative and a parent/guardian chaperone to ISRI’s 2020 Annual Convention and Expo to be held April 27-30th in Las Vegas, NV. Trip costs covered include airfare for two (student plus parent/guardian chaperone) from a major airport, two nights at the ISRI Convention HOtel, and an ISRI Convention pass for one day, including lunch. In cases where a team is chosen as the grand prize winner, the team must choose one individual to represent the group at the conference, additional team members and/or chaperones can attend as well if the team raises the necessary funds on their own to cover their additional travel costs.Participate
Website: https://www.jason.org/2020-recycling-contest
Managing Organization: Jason Learning
Eligibility:
The contest is open to all students living in the United States and Canada enrolled in grades K-12 during the 2019-20 school year. Students can enter the contest as individuals or as a team of up to four individuals. Each individual or team can submit either a video or a poster to the contest.
The contest is open to all students living in the United States and Canada enrolled in grades K-12 during the 2019-20 school year. Students can enter the contest as individuals or as a team of up to four individuals. Each individual or team can submit either a video or a poster to the contest.
Registration Dates
December 19, 2019
9:01pm PST