Rockville Student Wins International Compost Awareness Week Poster Contest

International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is held each year during the first full week of May, and each year the Compost Council Research and Education Foundation (CCREF) holds a Poster Contest, open to people of all ages and from all across the world. This year an eleventh-grade high school student, Talia Mitre, from Rockville, designed the winning poster! Talia’s poster highlights this year’s theme of “Compost! Building a Better Future.”

Representatives from Bethesda Green, CCREF, the US Composting Council, the Food Council, and our Environmental Impact Working Group (EIWG) gathered at Bethesda Green to celebrate and share Talia’s impressive work. Talia shared that she was “inspired by the idea that composting is better for our world,” and drew inspiration from her vegetable garden and flower beds at home. Susan Eisendrath, the Co-Chair of the EIWG, commended Talia’s artistry and spoke on the financial, environmental, and community benefits of composting.