After 200 entries from 29 countries, the European Environment Agency (EEA) announced their winners of the Waste•smART competition, which invited Europeans to produce a video, cartoon or photo on the topic of waste. Judges awarded the best video prize to Sebastian Loghin from Romania for his short video ‘Recycle’.
Thirty finalists were selected. From this initial selection, a group of communication experts from across Europe chose a winner in each category (photography, videos and cartoons), and selected an additional winner of the ‘youth prize’, open to all entrants between the ages of 18 and 24. The public also voted for their favourite finalist in an online poll. All five winners will receive a cash prize of EUR 500.
The finalists’ entries will be promoted throughout 2014 in EEA publications and events related to the topic of waste and resource use. The other winners are:
Stephen Mynhardt from Ireland who won the cartoon category, with ‘Collective responsibility’.
The photo competition was won by Stipe Surać from Croatia.
Greek Konstantinos Pappas won the youth prize with this animation, titled ‘The Aim’.
Almost 1 800 people voted for the public choice award. Spaniard Irene Sanfiel, also known as Zireja, won with 573 votes for ‘The waste coast’.
All photos courtesy of European Environment Agency
Oana Vasiliu