Oro Loma/Waste Management
Earth Day 2006 Poster Contest

For the twelfth year in a row, Oro Loma Sanitary District and Waste Management sponsored an Earth Day Poster Contest. The contest was free and open to all students attending a school located in the Oro Loma Sanitary District that is serviced by Waste Management for recycling.

This year's contest slogan was: Paper-Too Good to Waste! Students created posters that showed why it is important to reduce, reuse, and recycle paper. A list of cash winners in each grade category will be announced on the contest hotline at (510) 613-2855 and on www.oroloma.org on Earth Day, April 22, 2006. The specific placement of winners within each grade category will be unveiled at an awards ceremony on May 9, 2006.

Prizes are as follows: First Place $500, Second Place $300, Third Place $200, Honorable Mention (two awarded) $100. Prizes will be awarded to the winning students in each of six grade groups: K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, 9-10, 11-12. Matching cash prizes will be awarded to the winning students' schools. A Certificate of Merit will be given to the 15 finalists in each grade category who do not win a cash prize.

All winning posters will be printed on the back of the Oro Loma 2006-2007 calendar. A selection of these posters will also be featured on each month.

All posters will be returned to the schools that submitted them.