Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Primary / Secondary)

Date: October 2024 - May 2025

In our daily life, we unconsciously generate different types of waste. Many of them can be avoided by recycling, reducing, and reusing. To motivate schools in waste reduction and recycling, the "Plastic Challenge" is promoted through Ocean Park Conservation Alliance. This year, we collaborate with the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) to launch “SGREEN” Inter-school Recycling Competition, aiming to encourage students to practise clean recycling actively in schools and invite their family members to visit “GREEN@COMMUNITY” recycling facilities for recycling, with a view to cultivating the habits of waste reduction and recycling at home and in the community.

Member schools are encouraged to participate in SGREEN throughout the school year. To boost resources recovery, other recyclable waste, in addition to plastic, is also encouraged to be used at smart recycling devices or GREEN@COMMUNITY outlets.

The competition will be divided into "School group" and "Parent-child group".  Schools with outstanding achievement would be awarded with trophy and other prizes.
To participate in Flagship Activity – SGREEN, member schools will have to complete the following task:

Eligibility 

Become members of the below programmes： 

• “We-recycle@School”Activity ( Please visit their website for enrolment) 
• “Ocean Park Conservation Alliance”

"School Group" Competition Procedure

1. Weight and record the recyclables (plastics, cans, metals & others) either in school or in GREEN@COMMUNITY outlets
2. Submit the recyclable quantity records once every academic term (December 2024 and May 2025). Those records can be recyclable quantity record forms provided by contractors after on-site recycling, or the records shown in GREEN$ app after recycling at GREEN@COMMUNITY outlets by schools
3. Submit all data on or before 31 May 2025

"Parent-child Group" Competition Procedure

1. Sign up as "GREEN$"
2. Scan school-specific QR code (to be distributed by schools) to submit their personal data
3. Recycle at the smart recycling facilities of the “GREEN@COMMUNITY” community recycling network
4. All recycling data during the competition period will be used for analysis

Awards

Award	Number of Award
Recycling Guru Award	Top 15 students who have achieved the highest recycling quantity in Secondary School Sector and Primary School Sector
Top Recycling Quantity Award – School (will be calculated based on weight(kg))	1 each of the below award for Secondary School Sector and Primary School Sector: Gold
	1 each of the below awards for Secondary School Sector and Primary School Sector: Silver Bronze
Best Participating Family Award	20 families
Best Participation School Award (will be calculated based on no of participants)	1 each of the below awards for Secondary School Sector and Primary School Sector: Gold Silver Bronze
Supreme Recycling Award - School	1 each for Secondary School Sector and Primary School Sector

Click here to know more about the Activity Support, Competition Process and Prize for each Award.

Please visit "Resources" for details.

Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Primary / Secondary)

Date: October 2024 – March 2025

The food we consume every day comes from all around the world and thus produces loads of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emitted during transportation and from producing the packaging materials. Adopting a low carbon diet is an effective way to combat climate change. It can be conducted in a few simple principles: eat package free food, eat local or eat seasonal. To minimize the environmental impact on food item production, “Eat package free food, local or seasonal (Low Carbon PLS)” is promoted through Ocean Park Conservation Alliance by consuming low carbon food in school.

Member schools are encouraged to incorporate the concept of “Low Carbon PLS” into one of the school activities, such as picnic day or Christmas celebration. Photo that could best represent the theme of “Low Carbon PLS” has to be submitted by 17th Feb, 2025. The photos submitted would then be uploaded to “Mission R” Facebook page for public voting on 24th Feb, 2025 and the school with the most-liked photo would be awarded.

To participate in Flagship Activity - Low Carbon PLS, member schools will have to conduct the following items:

1. Incorporate the concept of “Low Carbon PLS” into one of the school activities.
2. Record the percentage of participants of the activity.
3. Submit a photo that could best represent the “Low Carbon PLS” Day with a brief description (max. 150 words for Chinese AND max. 200 words for English) and other details by 17th Feb, 2025.
4. The photos submitted by schools would be exhibited for public’s voting in late Feb.
5. Schools with the most-liked photo would be awarded (three in each division - Primary / Secondary).

Please visit "Resources" for details.

Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Primary / Secondary)

Location: Hong Kong

Date: 25-28 April 2025

Biodiversity, the variety of species living on our planet has been declining, mainly due to human activities, including pollution, increase consumption of land and resources, climate change. In order to maintain the biodiversity of the Earth, we could obtain information about local flora and fauna so as to reduce the human impacts on wildlife by “Saving species and their habitats".

To know more about local biodiversity, “Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools” (member schools) are encouraged to join City Nature Challenge 2025. It is a large-scale event to record local wildlife using the free online platform iNaturalist. After species identification, the data collected would contribute to the global biodiversity database which assist scientists in ecological research.

To participate in Flagship Activity - City Nature Challenge 2025, member schools will have to conduct the following items:

1. Download iNaturalist and login to your registered account
2. School project will be provided by Ocean Park Academy Hong Kong
3. Teacher in charge add all participating student IDs into your school project
4. Take pictures and identify the wild species found
5. Schools that record the greatest number of species would be awarded as Best Participating school (three in each division - Primary / Secondary)

Please visit "Resources" for details.