No Time to Waste.
Eco-Art Competition 2021.

Calling all artists ages 5-22. Use your creativity to help sustain our world!

*Submissions received must be in English

* Due to U.S. regulations, cash prizes awarded outside of the United States are subject to review and may not be eligible for cash award.

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The trouble is closer than we think
By Karina Aleksandrovna Krivenko
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2021 - Division II (Ages 10-13)

And of course I'm concerned about the garbage problem. I drew a lot of garbage: bottles, boards, toys… In the background, there is a forest and living green grass. Near the garbage, the grass died and only three small daisies in the clearing survived. They seem to be shouting at us – "Help!". We have seen such ugly dumps more than once when we went out into nature. We have very beautiful landscapes in Siberia and it is very sad that people fill them with garbage. People who do this do not appreciate the forest and the fields where animals, birds and insects live. It's not pretty. And they also cause irreparable damage to the environment: garbage rots, flies across the fields and destroys living organisms. Garbage is like a terrible trace of a person's life, like a "black mark". I must also say that children's bright toys, sitting alone on the edge of the forest, where he was thrown out, look very unexpected and scary. Immediately you start to be afraid of both toys and children who played in them. Time runs very fast and when the children grow up, perhaps the garbage will not have time to rot yet. And then what will we tell our loved ones? How can we explain why our toys are in the woods? Did we play here? There is very little forest in the city. The trees are specially planted and cared for. How much is already a real natural landscape shamelessly ruined? A civilized person should follow the rules and dispose of waste according to the rules. They need to be taken to special tanks for: paper, glass, and plastic. Then the garbage truck will take away the garbage for recycling. How beautiful it is to look at a clean, healthy forest.