NEW CATEGORY IN 2025! This year the contest introduces a new BEFORE & AFTER category sponsored by Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. Submissions in this category must involve a Pick Up Pennsylvania reported event. To register a cleanup event, visit Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania site. All 2025 Lens on Litter contest rules and requirements must be followed.
- March 1 – May 31, Pick Up Pennsylvania‘s spring event in support of The Great American Cleanup is eligible for FREE work gloves, safety vests, and trash bags as supplies last. Donated landfill space for trash collected during the cleanup is also available for free or reduced cost April 1 – 30. Registered events will receive details concerning participating landfills.
PRC thanks Lens on Litter sponsors Carolyn Capaldi, Robert & Mary Capaldi, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, Sheetz and Wegmans.
LEARN MORE and enter the Lens on Litter Contest by October 31.
A panel of judges selected the following entries as 2024 winning photos.
STUDENT CATEGORY
1st PLACE ($500 prize): Delores Simpson, Glenville, Emory H. Markle Middle School in Hanover, “Beauty in Chaos”
2nd PLACE ($250 prize): Deanna Miller, Bethlehem, Freedom High School, “Takeout (The Trash)”
3rd PLACE ($100 prize): Christianna Wright, Fenelton, Butler Area Senior High School, “A Leaky Future”
ADULT CATEGORY
1st PLACE ($500 prize): Kathleen Frederick, Bethlehem, “At the Corner of Disregard & Apathy”
2nd PLACE ($250 prize): Terry Hartz, Weatherly, “Hook, Line and …Tangled!”
3rd PLACE ($100 prize): Carye Bye, Pittsburgh, “I’m Heron we have a Litter Problem”
