When it comes to reducing roadside litter, listen to the kids

Four winners selected in Adopt-A-Highway litter bag art contest

By Barbara LaBoe

With our basic college litter bag art contest complete, one factor is clear: Our messaging is ready to get fairly a artistic boost!



We requested youngsters in grades 1 to 6 to ship us art work for new Adopt-A-Highway litter bags and we have been pleased to see the huge artwork. And, simply as exciting, have been the artistic methods scholars got here up with sharing our litter prevention messages.
Lanie Burchfiel, 9

Our crews, alongside with our precious Adopt-a-Highway volunteers, clean about 600 plenty of trash off of extra than 18,000 miles of state roadways each year. Despite that effort, roadside litter stays an ongoing subject and concern. And the simplest approach to deal with the subject is to keep away from the trash from getting to the roadways within the primary place.



So, we requested our state's scholar artists to lend us a hand in spreading the prevention message. It wasn't an simple determination choosing amongst nearly a hundred entries, but our judges lastly chose 4 designs that could be featured at the baggage – one layout per bag.
Ronin Sole, 11

And the winners are...

Samantha Daniel, 7, of North Star Elementary
Lanie Burchfiel, 9, of Tekoa Elementary
Logan Domingo, 10, of Shorewood Elementary
Ronin Sole, 11, Voyager Elementary
The judges' alternatives span the state and age levels and contain stylized drawings of mountains and trees, a drawing of a enormous earth or even a pet assisting cheer on disposing of trash properly.
Logan Domingo, 10

We particularly needed to attain out to youngsters for this contest simply due to the fact we needed them to share the message no longer in simple terms among their peers, but in addition with the adults of their lives. We'd also be remiss if we did no longer thank the various lecturers and different educators who helped share the information of the contest. Working collectively we will all take steps to scale back roadside litter, which creates a higher and purifier environment for everyone.



With the designs selected, we are going to now work with printers and desire to have the luggage – made up of biodegradable plastic – published by means of means of past due summer. They'll be reachable at network occasions as properly as at our nearby offices. (We many times restrict bags to at least one per driver to guarantee everybody has a danger to acquire them).
Samantha Daniel, 7

Please enroll in us in congratulating the 4 chose artists as nicely as everybody who participated. And, please be counted those ideas for assisting preserve our highways clean:

Secure all loads, even "quick trips" in metropolis – it is the law and it will probably steer clear of accidents as nicely as roadside litter
Never throw trash or different presents within the again of pickups the place they'll fly out and land at the roadways
Keep tune of trash interior your car so that it does not fall out whilst you go out the vehicle
Never toss litter out of a car or alongside a roadway

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