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New York Recycles! Poster Contest 2021 Winners

2021 New York Recycles! Poster Contest 2021 Winners

reduce, recycle, reuse poster with children encourage to do the right thing for our future by using composting, reusable bags, not cutting trees and putting recyclables and trash in the proper place

Grades K-3: First Place

Shruthi Rao

Success Academy Midtown West

New York, NY

poster with the Statue of Liberty and buildings in the background with a hand put litter into the garbage

Grades K-3: Second Place

Maria Foo

P.S. 212Q

Jackson Heights, NY

poster that says Reduce Your Single Use and shows 5 single use water bottles on the left saying

Grades K-3: Third Place

Derek Pankratz

Oquenock Elementary School

West Islip, NY

in the sky a hand holds a red fruit with a worm coming out of it, below there is a picture of a stream with tree's in a field. People are fishing trash out of the river as well as cleaning up the landscape. the text reads let's pick it up NY

Grades 4-6: First Place

Alayna Gonzalez

Forest Lake Elementary

Wantagh, NY

poster with a hand holding the NY recycles symbol and textile and recycling collection binx

Grades 4-6: Second Place

Adrian Rafael De Chavez

Wantagh Elementary School

Wantagh, NY

people putting their kitchen waste and yard waste into their outdoor compost pile

Grades 4-6: Third Place

Anushka Chandyok

Pine Tree Elementary

Monroe, NY

Student artwork that says Composting is a Heap of Fun

Grades 4-6: Runner-Up

Jenna Redick

Byron Bergen Elementary

Bergen, NY

Reduce, recycle, reuse with trees and a smiling earth

Grades 7-9: First Place

Yuvraj Chandyok

Monroe Woodbury High School

Central Valley, NY

Reduce Your Single Use poster that shows discounts for bringing your own coffee cup and shopping bags

Grade 10-12: First Place

Shoshana Weinstock

HAFTR High School

Cedarhurst, NY

poster with one side showing a littered beach and the other side says

Grades 10-12: Second Place

Navya Gautam

Hauppauge High School

Hauppauge, NY

poster of Composting 101: shows a collection containers + waste and insects = rich soil

Grades 10-12: Third Place

Nicole Kim

Smithtown High School West

Smithtown, NY

Artwork of buildings and recycling bins with the earth and says New York Recycles

Grades 10-12: Runner-Up

Rachel Czeisler

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School
Cedarhurst, NY

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