2023 Beach Plastic Art Contest
It’s time to turn trash into treasure! After you’ve participated in our 2023 Global Ocean Cleanup, get creative and construct a sea turtle from the trash you removed from the beach.
The beach is an important habitat for sea turtles. It’s where they start their journey as a hatchling and lay their eggs as adults. When beaches are covered in trash, it’s hard for turtle to do their thing. That’s why we are so happy to organize a beach cleanup this year during Sea Turtle Week.
We hope that by turning beach trash into turtles, you will inspire others to realize how pollution on the beach impacts sea turtles, as well as other animals.
We can’t wait to see what you create. No matter what, you’ve done great work by cleaning up the beach this year. Sea turtles everywhere will thank you!
Prizes
Sea Turtle Postcards
Sea Turtle Stickers
Enter Here
All entries are subject to the rules and regulations outlined below. Language of the entry form can be changed in the upper right corner.
Please Note: Entrants will only be able to access the submission form ONCE.
Rules
Overview:
All artwork must be the entrant’s original and previously unproduced work. Artwork must be created using trash collected during the 2023 Global Ocean Cleanup. You must register your cleanup as an official 2023 Global Ocean Cleanup to be eligible to enter (registration is free). By acknowledging the online entry form, parents grant permission for their children’s artwork and first name to be put online or printed in the Sea Turtle Week materials. If Sea Turtle Week is notified that any element of an entrant’s entry infringes upon the rights of another person, the entry will be disqualified from the contest.
What to Enter:
Artwork should be a two or three dimensional sea turtle created using trash collected during the 2023 Global Ocean Cleanup. A photograph of the artwork should be uploaded to the online entry form. In order to be displayed in our online gallery without being stretched or distorted, photographs and scans must be submitted in .jpeg, .jpg, .png, or .tiff format. We suggest a resolution of 1,000-3,000 pixels. Winners may be required to supply a higher resolution image upon judges requests. An additional photo of the cleanup event must be included for verification. The maximum file size is 100MB. You will only be able to access the entry form once. Additional entry forms may not by accommodated. If multiple submissions are made by the same entrant, only the first images will be reviewed.
Ethics:
The welfare of the beach and ocean environment must be placed ahead of the desire to create artwork. Upon entering the contest, entrants certify that no people, wildlife or the environment were harmed in creating a photograph. All artwork created using trash collected during the 2023 Global Ocean Cleanup must be removed from the beach after completion.
Entry deadline:
The contest begins on June 8, 2023. All entries must be received through the entry link below by 11:59 PM on June 20, 2023.
Conditions of Entry:
Entries will not be accepted unless submitted via the official contest channel. Entries not submitted through the proper channel will be deleted. Submissions will not be accepted once the deadline lapses (June 20, 2023 11:59 PM).
Entries will be judged by the a panel of independent judges selected by SEE Turtles and the Oceanic Society. All decisions are final. SEE Turtles and the Oceanic Society reserves the right to disqualify any entry that is deemed inappropriate or does not conform to stated contest rules. Audience voting will begin in late June once all entries have been reviewed and deemed eligible. Check back here for instructions on audience voting
Prizes must be collected by the winners and are nontransferable. Winners will be contacted via the email address provided during entry. If no response is received after seven business days, a new winner will be selected and the previous winner will forfeit all rights to the prize.