Last month, the Bureau of Solid Waste Management announced that four members of its recycling staff won a National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) Blue Pencil and Gold Screen Award for their contributions to the creation of Baltimore County’s comedic, silent film-style recycling public service ad (PSA), “Tangled Up!”
Now members of the County’s recycling staff have won a 2019 Telly Award for their work on the PSA.
Communications Specialist Jeanette Garcia Polasky, Public Information Specialists Rashida White and Anne Marshall and interns Jahi Thomas and Natalie Adachi were among the 11 county employees who worked on the PSA that earned them a Silver Telly Award in the Social Video, General-Public Service and Activism category. Other 2019 Silver Award winners include Verizon Media, The Humane Society of the United States and the National School Boards Association.
Receiving over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents, the Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by more than 200 leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks and production companies including Vice, Vimeo, Hearst Digital Media, BuzzFeed and A&E Networks.
Produced in-house, “Tangled Up!” shows why “tanglers” – items such as plastic bags and clothing – are not accepted by most recycling programs. The PSA has been shared on social media and blogs by more than 170 government, business, media and nonprofit organizations and industry professionals on four continents.
Watch and share Baltimore County’s award-winning recycling PSA on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter.