Lets help keep the planet clean! Throughout the week, carefully separate out your garbage and recycling into seperate bags.
Document your recycling vs. your garbage, and write about choices you’ve made in your life to reduce your single-use plastic waste or what steps you are taking in your community’s green initiative. Examples include choosing to fill a reusable bottle from the tap instead of bottled water, bringing a reusable produce bag to the store, and purchasing items packaged with less plastic. We know not all of these options are available to everyone, so you may also write about what you are trying to do for the future.
We require at least a standard grocery-sized bag worth of recycling, feel free to re-use any bags you get from shopping or invest in a reusable bag you can wash out after each use! Your recycling also does not NEED to be bagged; this is just an example to show how much is required at minimum.
Size example for bags:


REQUIREMENTS
To receive rewards you must:
★ Fill at LEAST a standard grocery-sized bag with recycling. (See pictures for size reference)
★ The recycling must be separated from the trash, and cleaned so it may be recycled properly.
★ Research what kinds of plastics and other materials are recyclable in your location! Plastics, papers, and cans can all fit in this category.
★ For proof, you must submit a photo of your full recycling bag with a piece of paper with your Project Xero username written on it, as well as the date.
INSTRUCTIONS
To submit your proof for this prompt, follow the instructions below!
1. First, collect at least a grocery bag's worth of recycling. You can go bigger than this if you wish!
2. Write your Project Xero account username on a piece of paper with the day's date. Take a picture of your recycling with this piece of paper, as proof.
3. Upload the picture somewhere (Sta.sh, Imgur, Dropbox, etc.) and copy the link to the picture.
4. Paste the URL of the image to the "Submission URL" box for this prompt.
5. In the 'Comments' section of the prompt submission, write about choices you’ve made in your life to reduce your single-use plastic waste or what steps you are taking in your community’s green initiative. Examples include choosing to fill a reusable bottle from the tap instead of bottled water, bringing a reusable produce bag to the store, and purchasing items packaged with less plastic. We know not all of these options are available to everyone, so you may also write about what you are trying to do for the future.
6. If you are submitting multiple bags at once, you may take a picture of all the bags together, and just submit the prompt multiple times to get your rewards for each bag collected. However, you will still need to write four different ways you are working on reducing the amount of waste you contribute to the environment!
7. Submit your prompt, and wait! A member of the team will review and accept it for you. Your account will receive a notification once the submission is approved!