Plastic-Free Campus Challenge.
Join the Plastic-Free Campus Challenge and empower your students to lead meaningful environmental action. This initiative invites young minds to innovate, solve real problems, and create plastic-free solutions within their own school campus.
About Challenge
Introduction:
The Plastic-Free Campus Challenge is an inspiring initiative that encourages young students to take action on environmental issues. In a world where plastic pollution is growing every day, this challenge gives students from Classes 5th to 12th a meaningful opportunity to look at their own school campus and make it plastic-free.
By encouraging students to identify plastic-related problems on campus and create practical, real-world solutions, the challenge transforms learning into action, which promotes entrepreneurial thinking at a young age. It helps students move beyond textbooks and experience what it truly means to create impact. Through creativity, teamwork, and leadership, students will work to reduce plastic use across their campus and promote a cleaner, healthier campus for everyone.
This challenge is more than a competition, as it aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12), Life on Land (SDG15), and Climate Action (SDG13). It is a journey that shapes awareness, builds responsibility, and nurtures young environmental leaders who can drive change within their schools and beyond.
Purpose:
To make schools move toward becoming plastic-free by empowering students to lead this change by nurturing student leadership and entrepreneurship to create future environmental champions who carry these values far beyond the school campus.
Objectives:
- To reduce plastic use and encourage sustainable practices inside school campuses.
- To inspire students to develop action-based solutions for a plastic-free school campus.
- To build environmental awareness, creativity, and problem-solving skills in students.
- To develop leadership and entrepreneurship qualities and foster responsibility toward climate and community.
- To support schools in adopting long-term practices that create cleaner, plastic-free learning environments.
Guidelines
1. Eligibility
- Students from Classes 5 to 12 can participate.
- Entries must come through schools only
- Participation is open individually or in teams of 3–4 students.
2. Types of Ideas Allowed
Students may propose action-based or action + awareness ideas such as:
- Refill or reuse systems
- Plastic-free celebrations or events
- Awareness activities with measurable action
- Any idea that reduces plastic usage or plastic waste on the campus
3. School-Level Selection
- Students first pitch their ideas within their school.
- Schools select their top 3 entries based on impact, practicality, and creativity.
- Only these 3 entries are sent to Plastic-Free Sunday.
- Register before 20th Dec 2025.
