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Clean Beach Poster Contest
Encourage them to enter the Can the Trash! Clean Beach Poster Contest, and their artwork could be featured on LA County beach trash barrels next summer!
ABOUT THE CONTEST: The Department of Beaches and Harbors encourages kids to learn how ocean pollution begins in their neighborhood, no matter where they live. And, third- through fifth-grade students have the chance for their environmentally-themed original posters to appear on trash barrels across the County’s beaches!
Now in its third year, the Can the Trash! Clean Beach Poster Contest and educational campaign aims to teach kids how trash from all over Los Angeles County—no matter if it’s left in the South Bay, San Fernando Valley, the Gateway Cities or East L.A.—can travel through the watershed and end up on beaches like Dockweiler, Venice and Zuma and in the ocean.
Third- through fifth-grade students can enter the poster contest by submitting artwork containing environmental messages about keeping the beaches and ocean clean. Five winners from each grade will have their artwork wrapped around beach trash barrels on some of Southern California’s most popular beaches. The deadline for entries is January 10, 2021.
The educational campaign includes the animated “Clean and Blue” music video, as well as the the “Ocean Heroes” activity guide, developed in partnership with Heal the Bay and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. The video and other materials are available online at beaches.lacounty.gov/postercontest.
The 2021 contest deadline is January 10, 2021.
For details & to learn how to keep our beaches and oceans clean, click here.
To enter online, click ENTER NOW.
To enter by mail or in person, DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM.
Please email your questions to postercontest@bh.lacounty.gov.
To view the latest winning artwork, click here.
