Each year, the International Compost Awareness Week Committee holds a poster contest to pick a new design for the annual poster. There is a new theme for ICAW, which is highlighted on the poster as well as the dates for ICAW, which will be May 7 – 13, 2023. The contest is open to anyone in the world age 14 or older.
The winning poster will serve as the promotional piece, in the United States, for ICAW 2022, May 1 – 7, 2022, (ICAW is celebrated in other countries, some using a different theme). We invite EVERYONE, to join in the fun - whether or not you have celebrated or been involved in ICAW in the past, we want you to participate this year.
POSTER THEME: For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost!
The 2023 International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) theme is truly a collaborative and international effort. This year, we teamed up with the International Compost Alliance (ICA) to select: For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost! The theme was chosen based on a serious world-wide issue that every nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger.
One of the initiatives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), is Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. As part of the ICAW committee’s global discussion with our international partners around the world, we spoke the same language, and all wanted to promote a unified theme - aligning a topic important to each country while emphasizing our work with compost.
The chosen 2023 theme best reflects the goal of focusing on how compost can have a role in helping feed the world, by making soil healthier which produces healthier food. How does compost help? By recycling organics into compost and using it on our farmlands we create healthy soils that produce healthier food and higher yields. It also reduces the need for fertilizer and pesticides, improves water quality and conserves water, as well as stores carbon in soil - helping to reduce climate change. Compost not only helps the environment but also helps to decrease food shortages experienced around the world. For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost!
Eligibility
This international contest runs from September 1st until November 1st, 2022 and is open to anyone age 14 or older who wishes to share their artistic creativity to promote this year’s theme.
The winning poster will serve as the promotional piece, in the United States, for ICAW 2022, May 1 – 7, 2022, (ICAW is celebrated in other countries, some using a different theme). We invite EVERYONE, to join in the fun - whether or not you have celebrated or been involved in ICAW in the past, we want you to participate this year.
How to Enter
The poster contest winner will have their poster reproduced and distributed to thousands nationwide. It will be the official 2022 International Compost Awareness Week poster and featured on the CREF website as well as on the US Composting Council website too.
The poster contest winner will have their poster reproduced and distributed to thousands nationwide. It will be the official 2022 International Compost Awareness Week poster and featured on the CREF website as well as on the US Composting Council website too.
Prizes
The winning “poster artist” will have their name posted on the CREF website and will be included on print materials and in press releases in association with our annual ICAW celebration. The successful poster winner will also receive a $500 prize.
REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST
Entries will be eliminated if requirements are not followed exactly.
Please read before you enter and make sure your poster has everything it needs.
Only one entry per person
Size is 12” wide X 18” vertical (this is in inches)
Resolution is 300 dpi in jpg format
Poster contains the theme title, Recipe for Regeneration: Compost
Poster contains the words International Compost Awareness Week May 1 -7, 2022
Do not add additional words to your poster. Only the theme and International Compost Awareness Week May 1 -7, 2022 are allowed. Any changes to those words or additions will automatically eliminate your entry.
If you have a photograph as part of your poster, please confirm that either you took the photo or you have obtained legal rights to use the photo.
The online application for the ICAW 2022 Poster Contest will be available on the organiser's website starting September 1, 2022
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