Congrats to our 2026 Colorado Eco Hero Mascot Design Contest Winners 🐾
For the 2026 student design contest, Recycle Colorado invited Colorado's K–12 students to design a Colorado Eco Hero, a mascot inspired by a real Colorado animal who helps protect our state through recycling, composting, reuse, and waste reduction.
We had 89 total submissions for this year's contest. We received submissions that included: Trash sorting raccoons, litter critters, reusing rams, trash protecting bears, wiggling compost worms and tons of eagles squawking about recycling and keeping Colorado clean!
Selected winner's art will be used to create stickers to be shared far and wide with their classmates and our members.
Most Radical Recycling Hero
Most Colorado
Coolest Composting Champion
Most Radical Recycling Hero
Judges’ Choice
Coolest Composting Champion
Thank you to our Sponsors
Previous Contest Resources
The guidelines for the 2026 Mascot Design Contest along with our other contest guidelines and resources are available on our "For Kids" webpage under the resources tab. Feel free to download, share and utilize these resources!