East Windsor Launches Earth Day Poster Contest For Students

EAST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, NJ — East Windsor Township, through the Township Clean Communities Committee, is sponsoring a Recycling Poster Contest for all elementary school students to focus on Earth Day, township officials announced.

Winners will receive gift certificates to Barnes and Noble bookstore. The theme of the poster is to promote any or all of the “4 Rs” of the Township Recycling Program Logo, which are:

• RECYCLE all items that can be recycled.
• REUSE other items rather than throw them out in the trash.
• REDUCE materials into their homes that then have to be disposed of.
• REBUY - i.e., buy goods that use recycled materials.

“The Recycling Poster Contest is to encourage young people, especially as we celebrate Earth Day, to focus on the importance of everyone practicing recycling to protect and preserve our environment,” East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov said. “We look forward to our talented students demonstrating, through the posters, their tremendous creativity and true interests in helping to green our earth.”

Student winners from Grades K-2 and winners from Grades 3-5 will win gift certificates to Barnes and Noble ($75, $50 and $25, respectively, for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place). The awards are being donated by Shiseido America.

Posters should be left at the student’s School’s Administrative Office or the East Windsor Municipal Building Mayor’s Office by March 26. Students should be certain that the back of each poster contains the student’s name, address, phone number, grade level and school attended.

Winners will be notified and awards made by the mayor at an Earth Day ceremony at the April 21 Council meeting. Winning posters will be displayed in the municipal building lobby through May.