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Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Kindergarten)

Date: October 2025 - April 2026

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. The launch of “SGREEN” Inter-school Recycling Competition is 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".  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:


"School Group" Competition Procedure

1. Weight and record the recyclables (plastics, cans, metals & others; not including food waste) either in school or in GREEN@COMMUNITY outlets
2. Submit the recyclable quantity records once every academic term (1-12 December 2025 and 1-15 May 2026). 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 15 May 2026

Please visit "Resources" for details.

2. Carbon Neutrality! Let's try!

Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Kindergarten)

Date: November 2025 to March 2026

Ocean Park Conservation Alliance has launched "Carbon Neutrality! Let's Try", allowing students to learn about local agriculture and practice low-carbon living through farming. The program encourages schools to promote the consumption of local food by all teachers and students, integrating the concept of "farm-to-table" into the campus. Schools are encouraged to experience growing various crops on campus and incorporate the results into various school activities to enjoy the fruits of their labor. 

Participating schools need to submit a photo and a description with the theme "farm-to-table" by 2 March 2026. The photos and descriptions will be uploaded to the "Mission R" Facebook page on 16 March 2026 for public voting. The top three school with the most-liked photo would be awarded.

To participate in flagship activity - "Carbon Neutrality! Let's Try", member schools will have to conduct the following items:

1. Incorporate the concept of "farm-to-table" into one of the school activities, record the percentage of participants of the activity
2. Submit one photo and description with maximum 200 Chinese characters and 400 English words between 1 November 2025 and 2 March 2026. The activity must include the following elements: 

- the results or current status of the crops grown on campus
- the source of the crops and how they are utilized
- how the activity promotes the consumption of local food by the entire school

3. Photos and descriptions submitted by participating schools will be uploaded to the "Mission R" Facebook page at 12:00 PM on 16 March 2026 for public voting. The voting period will end on 23 March 2026 at 4:00 PM
4. The top three school with the most-liked photo would be awarded (top three in each division – Kindergarten / Primary / Secondary)

3. City Nature Challenge 2026

Target: All Ocean Park Conservation Alliance Member Schools (Kindergarten)

Location: Hong Kong

Date: 24-27 April 2026
Upload observation record & identify species: 28 April - 10 May 2026

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 2026. 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 2026, 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 and students record local wildlife found near the school area / country parks from 24-27 April 2026
4. Teacher in charge add all photos and records to your school project from 28 April to 10 May 2026
5. Schools that record the greatest number of species would be awarded as Best Participating school (three in kindergarten division)

Please visit "Resources" for details.